A 16-billion-pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting ‘The Last Supper’ has been made available online. High resolution art photography technicians at HAL9000 worked with restoration specialists in Rome to create a lighting system that would minimize damage to works of art. The 15-foot by 29-foot painting was shot in 9 hours with a Nikon D2X digital SLR using a AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4D IF-ED II lens, and CLAUSS Rodeon VR motorized panoramic head. A total of 1,677 panoramic images were sewn together using two quad-core AMD Opteron processors, 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB hard disk. The image’s total size is 16,118,035,591 pixels (172181 x 93611) with a color depth of 16 bits per channel. See it here

A 16-billion-pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting ‘The Last Supper’ has been made available online. High resolution art photography technicians at HAL9000 worked with restoration specialists in Rome to create a lighting system that would minimize damage to works of art. The 15-foot by 29-foot painting was shot in 9 hours with a Nikon D2X digital SLR using a AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4D IF-ED II lens, and CLAUSS Rodeon VR motorized panoramic head. A total of 1,677 panoramic images were sewn together using two quad-core AMD Opteron processors, 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB hard disk. The image’s total size is 16,118,035,591 pixels (172181 x 93611) with a color depth of 16 bits per channel. See it here