"The Last Supper" - Photo at 16 Billion Pixels

Wires · #1 10-29-2007, 01:50 PM

"Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels - 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.

The high resolution will allow experts to examine details of the 15th century wall painting that they otherwise could not - including traces of drawings Leonardo put down before painting."

I've been playing around with it for about half an hour. Very neat and probably the best view of it you will have without travelling to Milan. In fact the detail you see in this image is greater than you could see with the unassisted eye. Looking at the "phantom hand" popularized in the DaVinci Code you can see that it is simply a hand bent awkwardly at the wrist and not some mysterious limb.

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Keyser. · #2 10-29-2007, 02:30 PM

That person on Jesus' right still looks like a woman at 16 billion pixels.

Wires · #3 10-29-2007, 02:33 PM

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Absolutely. I thought the exact same thing.

StepBangin · #4 10-29-2007, 03:38 PM

Mine just gets really blurry when I zoom in

ItalianFX · #5 10-29-2007, 03:51 PM

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Mine does too. You just have to let it load for awhile and it'll start to refocus itself.

Keyser. · #6 10-29-2007, 04:20 PM

also correct me if I'm wrong, but at 100% you're only seeing a 4cm by 2cm square so I don't know what you're expecting it to look like.

Jehaim · #7 10-29-2007, 05:31 PM

I like the music, what is it?

LuckOfTheDraw · #8 10-29-2007, 08:45 PM

The hand actually looks as if it's pulling at the collar of the androgynous mystery character.

hennnerz · #9 10-29-2007, 08:51 PM

Was watching a film while browsing forums. Only now, 4 minutes after loading the image do I realise that the music is from the picture not the film...

Also, fwiw I just see cracks in it really, but still, nice find.

nutsflopper · #10 10-30-2007, 01:57 AM

Thanks for sharing this way to see it so detailed. I was amazed to discover that "H9" appears embedded all over the piece. Has anyone uncovered the significance that Leonardo was trying to convey by this?