Google Hits The Ball Out Of The Park In Super HD Focus

The Google Institute has developed an ultra-high resolution gigapixel Art Camera which can automatically recompose images into single works of extraordinary detail. 

The first thousand images are released today, and include works by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

 A gigapixel contains over one billion pixels, providing a level of detail unavailable even to the naked eye. The Art Camera has increased the number of available gigapixel art images from 200 to 1000 since 2011.

The Art Camera consists of a robot camera that automatically takes hundreds of high resolution close-up photos of the details of an image, using laser and sonar technology to ensure that each image is in focus.

Software is then used to take the hundreds of individual close-up pictures and combine them into one whole image.

With this technology, one can view photos produced by classical artists from a computer or mobile device without needing to travel around the world to do so.

These digital gigapixel images are intended to be available for viewing and studying for years.

 In the future, we may see Google use machine-learning algorithms to analyze influential classical painters and create new masterpieces.