A 16 billion pixel image of Leonardo DaVinci’s “The Last Supper” has been posted online for all the world to adore and observe up close. I hope that this is only the beginning of this kind of thing. My intuition tells me that someone will put together an organization who gets large grants with the intention of doing this “High Resolution, online thing” to many more masterworks including all of the obvious ones (Imaging looking at a Van Gogh or Monet in that high of a resolution).
Here are some beautiful picture I found online today…… enjoy!
“Since 1974, Nikon has sponsored a yearly photo competition for images that delve into the worlds beyond the reach of the unaided human eye. The camera maker feted the photographers who made the top 20 “photomicrographs” in Nikon’s annual Small World competition at New York’s Explorer’s Club. The winners were drawn from a pool of 1,709 submissions.”
This is a speech by inventor Ray Kurzweil. He is describing how “Moore’s law” applies to not only transistors, but ALL technology. The Phenomanon has been christened “Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns”.
