Extremely detailed version of Da Vinci's The Last Supper

[salleles]

This is really cool, a 16 gigapixel image of the painting. Unfortunately there is no fullscreen option.

_http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/cenacolo/look.asp

Laura discusses The Last Supper here (scroll down to the bottom).

 

[rs]

This is really cool, a 16 gigapixel image of the painting. Unfortunately there is no fullscreen option.

Um, what kind of monitor do you use?

:)

What is so cool about this is the zoom function feels like it is essentially without limit. You can look at the whole painting or you can zoom into a fleck of paint.

 

[Zadius Sky]

What is so cool about this is the zoom function feels like it is essentially without limit. You can look at the whole painting or you can zoom into a fleck of paint.

Yeah, the zoom thing is pretty cool. At first, I wasn't sure what button to push on the zoom. So, I accidently click on the between the "-" and "+" and Jesus's face started flying at me pretty fast.

Interesting site. But, if you don't know the meaning behind this painting or read Laura's SHOTW, you're pretty much staring at it.

 

[salleles]

Hi rs, my monitor is 20" with a resolution of 1680x1050. As you can see there's plenty of room left ;)

 

[dant]

It seems on my monitor, zooming in at a certain level pixelates (3%), so I am
not sure that this was intended. Seems that I cannot zoom to deeply. It also
seems that the 4th person to the left of Jesus has a missing pinky finger and
since I cannot zoom into it, it appears missing. I also note the hand under the
chin of the 1st person to the left is out of proportion; the index finger appears
too long as to appear as a knife? I have a Hitachi 813 monitor and a 32MB
Nivida chipset with 1600x1200, full color, so I *should* be able to zoom quite
deeply but I think the Flash player v9 is limiting depth/zoom or is fragmenting
quite badly. I am not sure if this is a restriction by flash?

 

[rs]

It seems on my monitor, zooming in at a certain level pixelates (3%), so I am
not sure that this was intended.

This is probably intended by microcrush because this happens on Firefox, but not IE v7. On IE I can zoom into the nose of Jesus to 100% and see the cracking of the paint chips.

 

[dant]

Wow, rs! It does not even show up on IE6 at all! I was actually
viewing via FireFox and you are probably correct with this assessment!
I am going to see if this also happens under FC5 and see what happens
and report back later and edit the results here....

UPDATE:
Ok, well I was not able to view the the flash information in
FC5 as it seems that it refuses to load the flash. Perhaps
it is related to an incorrect installation on my FC5, so I gave
up. Oh well.

Note: it says: Se non vedi qui abilita JS.

Whatever THAT means... FYI

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

I use Firefox too, it pixellates like crazy for a while, but if you just let it sit there for a few seconds, it should try to download the higher resolution images and show you the proper detail - at least it did for me.