[HN Gopher] Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)
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       Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)
        
       Author : lhoff
       Score  : 448 points
       Date   : 2024-09-21 09:08 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.rijksmuseum.nl)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.rijksmuseum.nl)
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | That's quite well-done!
       | 
       | Much faster than most of these types of sites.
        
       | Freak_NL wrote:
       | An older, lower resolution image (11206 x 9320 pixels) can be
       | downloaded here:
       | 
       | https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=...
       | 
       | To avoid the dumb mandatory account login, just use
       | https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl . It worked just now (so
       | be nice and leave it working).
       | 
       | Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with
       | that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the
       | neighbouring Van Goghmuseum, which refuses to share anything but
       | low resolution photos of Vincent van Gogh's works. Public museums
       | are supposed to be custodians of culture, not IP owners.
        
         | mjfisher wrote:
         | I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image
         | of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did
         | it ask you for an account?
        
           | Freak_NL wrote:
           | You can zoom in a lot on the 2490 x 1328 pixels offered. When
           | you hit the download button for the full version, you get
           | nagged.
           | 
           | Edit: you can zoom in, and then it will offer up the painting
           | in slices at a higher resolution. So in theory you could
           | download those and stitch them together if you manage to hit
           | an unscaled version.
        
         | re wrote:
         | Wikimedia has a slightly higher-res image more easily
         | accessible:
         | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Re...
         | (14,168 x 11,528 px)
        
           | ozim wrote:
           | Cool wiki has people recognition on paintings so you can
           | click the link to see note about person in the picture!
        
             | porphyra wrote:
             | It's not people recognition, it's just manually created
             | tags by volunteers. Anyone can draw a box on any image and
             | write whatever they want in it.
        
           | Freak_NL wrote:
           | Odd that the resolution differs. The source linked to from
           | Wikimedia Commons is the same page at the museum's website as
           | the one I linked to.
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | the account might be a combination of "deter abusive downloads"
         | and "help, we have not enough members" combined.. now thinking,
         | the result of account gets sent to administration and then
         | funders, too, as a report result. not defending the practice,
         | but the institution has to defend and maintain, too.
        
       | keepamovin wrote:
       | Oh wow, that is so cool. I thought I was at max zoom, normal
       | blurry tiles. Then BOOM! It came into focus and I saw tiny
       | cracks, smallest areas of paint, no loss of clarity. It's like
       | you're standing right up next to it. That's incredible! Wow, all
       | I can say. That's insane, that is totally insane!
       | 
       | I would love if there were a depthmask or something and a
       | synthetic "keylight" feature you could drag around to really get
       | an idea of the textures, the peaks and valleys. I guess we'll
       | have that in a future version. This is incredible.
        
         | tigerlily wrote:
         | Yeah I noticed this too, incredible, I was thinking "how did
         | they do this?". It's zoom like it should be.
        
         | bitexploder wrote:
         | Enhance, but actually :)
        
         | jonasdegendt wrote:
         | Another similar scan is the Ghent altarpiece[0], and you get to
         | compare the pieces before and after a restoration.
         | 
         | [0] https://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpiece/#home
        
         | Guillaume86 wrote:
         | Would love a VR version with the features you mentionned,
         | looking at details with my nose on it...
        
       | Aachen wrote:
       | Not sure if off topic, but this German TV ad did a creative
       | recreation of the painting that I found amusing as a Dutch
       | person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XQXhr7LQM
        
         | lqet wrote:
         | Ah, Frau Antje [0], still shaping the image most Germans have
         | of the Dutch.
         | 
         | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Antje
        
       | curiousgal wrote:
       | To be honest I don't understand the obsession about documenting
       | things that are done to the painting. Going through that section
       | of the museum I felt like the curators cared more about
       | showcasing their efforts to store the painting than the painting
       | itself.
        
         | perihelions wrote:
         | I suspect there's selection effects in play: museum curators
         | who don't aggressively make the case for more museum funding,
         | don't end up curating the most well-funded museums.
        
         | davidmr wrote:
         | I think it's a way of keeping the museum's single most popular
         | piece of art on display whilst working it. I think most museums
         | would remove it for a while, but so many people come
         | specifically to see this painting that they want to keep it
         | viewable, so they make a little show of its restoration.
         | 
         | I dunno; I've been through that floor 5 or 6 times since they
         | started work, and people always seem to love the spectacle of
         | it.
        
         | throwup238 wrote:
         | Preserving and restoring an oil painting that old and large is
         | a minor achievement, especially considering how many people
         | have tried to destroy the painting in the last hundred years.
        
           | shagie wrote:
           | One of the channels that I've stumbled across in my YouTube
           | travels is Baumgartner Restoration -
           | https://www.youtube.com/@BaumgartnerRestoration
           | 
           | > Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a
           | second generation studio and now the oldest in Chicago
           | employs only the finest archival and reversible materials and
           | techniques to conserve and restore artworks for future
           | generations.
           | 
           | Its really interesting seeing the removal of past restoration
           | attempts and the modern techniques to restore a painting.
           | 
           | If I was to pick two that touch most on the responsibility of
           | restoration and what is and is not achievable...
           | 
           | Scraping, Scraping, Scraping Or A Slow Descent Into Madness.
           | The Conservation of Mathias J. Alten
           | https://youtu.be/YOOQl0hC18U
           | 
           | Restoring The Faceless Painting https://youtu.be/hsTkaSbMLHw
           | https://youtu.be/rDVcgpSwnyg https://youtu.be/JWCBNL-iu5s
        
         | andrepd wrote:
         | Why not? It's an old work of art, if you're going to make
         | changes to it you better do the best equivalent of `git commit`
         | that you physically can, to preserve how it was before your
         | change.
        
         | dewey wrote:
         | Sometimes I find these things more interesting than the
         | painting. I think it's good to also highlight what the museum
         | is working on. Otherwise people would think it's just a room
         | where they hang up new paintings once in a while, the restoring
         | and research part would then be even more invisible.
        
         | wrsh07 wrote:
         | I always find it fascinating! Much like it is important in a
         | museum of natural history to note "science isn't finished, some
         | of these things are still under research" it's important to
         | contextualize the painting you see today.
         | 
         | The painting today is different than it was fifty years ago or
         | a hundred years ago or from the day it was completed.
         | 
         | It's common for paintings to be modified after completion,
         | either by the creator or by the current owner. Whose version
         | are you seeing? What are the possible versions?
         | 
         | Anyway, the best part of a museum is you don't have to look at
         | the things that bore you
        
           | ErigmolCt wrote:
           | Yep, paintings are living artifacts that evolve over time
        
         | roughly wrote:
         | This particular piece of work is damn near 400 years old. When
         | one is tasked with participating in preserving such an item so
         | the next twenty generations can also enjoy it, it pays to take
         | notes on what you've done with your small part of that chain.
        
       | stavros wrote:
       | This is good, but I wish they would allow for more than 1:1 zoom
       | in. 1:1 pixels on a 4k display are too small, I'd like to be able
       | to zoom in more than that.
        
       | gyomu wrote:
       | Those 100MP digital medium format cameras are the most exciting
       | tech in photography of the whole 21st century as far as I'm
       | concerned.
       | 
       | For my "serious" photography work I shoot medium/large format
       | film, and every digital camera has left me non plussed. I may be
       | a little obsessive about image quality, but what's the point of
       | dropping $5k on a setup that gives worse results than a wooden
       | box and a sheet of film?
       | 
       | Then I got the Fuji GFX100 (the Hassy was a little out of my
       | range :-) and... wow. Totally different ball game. I can finally
       | produce digital images that rival film scans.
       | 
       | Seeing what museums have been doing with them has been super
       | cool.
        
         | formerly_proven wrote:
         | There's a trade off between sharpness and noise, the GFX have
         | an intentionally lowered fill factor to, essentially, produce a
         | sharper image. Meanwhile noise is one of the most important
         | things when marketing mainstream cameras (next to AF), so they
         | go for gapless microlenses etc.
         | 
         | The reason this impacts sharpness is because a lower FF gets
         | you closer to Shannon's ideal point sample, while a 99% FF is
         | like a pitch-sized box filter.
        
       | cyberlimerence wrote:
       | For anyone interested in technical aspects of this, I recommend
       | watching Pycon talk [1] from Robert Erdmann. I bookmarked this
       | couple of years ago.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_hm5oX7ZlE
        
         | encomiast wrote:
         | Watching that seriously intensifies my imposter syndrome.
        
       | jl6 wrote:
       | > To create this huge image, the painting was photographed in a
       | grid with 97 rows and 87 columns with our 100-megapixel
       | Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera.
       | 
       | Looks like they had the ability to move the camera precisely to
       | one of 97x87 grid positions. I wonder if they had any headroom in
       | the precision of that movement. Could they have used a lower
       | resolution but much cheaper camera and compensated by taking,
       | say, a 200x200 grid of images instead?
        
         | WithinReason wrote:
         | I'm sure they registered the images.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_registration
        
         | buildbot wrote:
         | Lower resolution yes, but one thing with the 400MS or any
         | multishot back is that it can shift by one or 1/2 pixel to
         | collect full RGB color info for each pixel, very important for
         | conservation work.
        
         | BurningFrog wrote:
         | It should be much easier to take overlapping pictures and
         | "seam" them together.
         | 
         | I assume there are software tools for that.
        
       | wkat4242 wrote:
       | I worked at this museum a few decades ago on a contract job, it
       | was cool to walk around among so much history. Though I never
       | really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden
       | Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which
       | nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of
       | these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album".
       | Artfully done yes but boring subjects in my personal opinion.
       | 
       | I did like some of the landscape views though. But overall I'm
       | more into modern art where the art and the message is the only
       | goal.
       | 
       | One of the things special to me about the night watch is that
       | it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I
       | saw it. In contrast, the Mona Lisa at the Louvre was
       | disappointingly tiny.
        
         | scyzoryk_xyz wrote:
         | Recommend Peter Greenaway's film ,,J'Accuse" about Rembrandt
         | and that painting. It shares your criticism and argues that in
         | it's own time, that painting did as well.
        
         | kwanbix wrote:
         | What is so incredible is the technique they used, the level of
         | detail and how lifelike they are.
        
           | magicalhippo wrote:
           | Something which is very hard, if not impossible, to get
           | unless you look at the real deal.
           | 
           | I'm generally not into art but my mom took me to the
           | Rijksmuseum, and I was blown away by the details in those
           | paintings. I spent probably 15 minutes just studying the
           | translucent ruff in one of the paintings in amazement.
           | 
           | The paint is three dimensional, the light interacts in ways
           | which just aren't captured in a photo. Viewing the paintings
           | on my screen here now they all look flat and quite dull in
           | comparison.
        
         | gyomu wrote:
         | > One of the things special to me about the night watch is that
         | it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before
         | I saw it. In contrast, the Mona Lisa at the Louvre was
         | disappointingly tiny.
         | 
         | I had the same experience seeing a print of Hokusai's Great
         | Wave. For whatever reason it was built up in my mind as a huge
         | piece, but in reality it's the size of a standard sheet of
         | paper.
        
           | meindnoch wrote:
           | Ukiyo-e had standard sizes, but none was larger than an A/2
           | piece of paper.
        
         | timwaagh wrote:
         | Sounds like you have been to the Rijks and nowhere else. Lots
         | of old paintings of all kinds of scenes hang in lots of museums
         | all over this country. Not a huge museum goer but this lacks
         | nuance.
        
         | jimvdv wrote:
         | I agree with you on the subjects are boring rich people, if we
         | judge it with today standards. For the time it was actually
         | quite unique that (upper) middle class people could get their
         | portrait done, and not just nobles.
         | 
         | I like to think of it as part of a period of history where the
         | merchants start to gain power from the aristocracy and that
         | shows in what gets passed down to us.
        
           | JJMcJ wrote:
           | > (upper) middle class people
           | 
           | It reflects a great change in Western society, which really
           | began to flourish first in the Netherlands, where the
           | merchant and industrial classes began to be dominant, and
           | were growing sick of pretending it wasn't true.
           | 
           | Mostly in Britain these days, we see the final pretenses of
           | the nobility on display.
        
             | ghaff wrote:
             | Holland is really where the wealthy merchant class first
             | became dominant in Europe--and was generally not
             | subservient to the nobility as in other other countries.
        
         | JJMcJ wrote:
         | Rembrandt could put life into rich people's portraits in ways
         | few were ever able to match.
         | 
         | Besides the Night Watch, this one:
         | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_De_Staal...
         | 
         | known in English by various names, such as Syndics of the
         | Drapers' Guild. These portrayals are anything but stuffy.
         | 
         | One writer said, if you take Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, for
         | music, Rembrandt was more than that for painting.
        
           | wkat4242 wrote:
           | Yeah I just don't 'see that' in them. Like I said I'm far
           | from an art connoisseur.
           | 
           | So what I said is my opinion alone :)
        
         | ErigmolCt wrote:
         | Art's impact often depends on context
        
         | cezart wrote:
         | I remember what I liked about Rijks upon visiting was that it
         | was organized by decade, and had not only paintings, but
         | various historical artifacts as well. Like state corporation
         | sealed opium, which offered a context for the contemporary
         | relaxed attitude of the Dutch towards drug consumption. And in
         | general offered many windows into how the country grew up to be
         | what it is. So yes, much history!
        
         | ethbr1 wrote:
         | > _One of the things special to me about the night watch is
         | that it 's huge in real life which I never really appreciated
         | before I saw it._
         | 
         | Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected:
         | - The Raft of the Medusa (Gericault)        - Guernica
         | (Picasso)        - The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dali)
         | 
         | Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough.
         | 
         | Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture
         | color or translucency in screen/page-presented imaging.
         | 
         | And so much of the European painting mastery in the 1400s+ is
         | the manipulation of non-opaque paint to create a desired
         | effect.
        
           | SamBam wrote:
           | And famous art that's much smaller in person than I expected:
           | _The Great Wave off Kanagawa_ by Hokusai. For such an epic
           | image, it 's only 25x37 cm / 10x14".
        
           | MeteorMarc wrote:
           | Add Birth of Venus (Botticelli)
        
           | trox wrote:
           | Aside from color and translucency, an original artwork shows
           | also the relief. It can tell much about the creation process
           | of a painting and adds additional texture. Furthermore, some
           | pigments were expensive and hard to work with prior to the
           | 19th century such that artists used it very sparingly.
        
             | Guillaume86 wrote:
             | It makes me wish for a VR app with ultra HD reproductions,
             | you could have normal maps and other 3d techniques to add
             | another level of fidelity, the scale is also not a problem
             | in VR.
        
           | dexwiz wrote:
           | Napoleon Crossing the Alps Is also much bigger than I
           | expected.
        
           | throwup238 wrote:
           | Add to that the _Blue Boy_ by Thomas Gainsborough at the
           | Pasadena Huntington and anything by Hans Holbein the Younger
           | such as the portraits of Sir Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell
           | at the Frick Collection.
           | 
           | The former uses a brilliant blue paint that is simply
           | impossible to convey via RGB display or CMYK printing color
           | spaces and the latter look like giant printed photographs,
           | down to the stubble on More's face, even though they were
           | painted in the early 16th century.
           | 
           |  _> And so much of the European painting mastery in the
           | 1400s+ is the manipulation of non-opaque paint to create a
           | desired effect._
           | 
           | I'm sad that people don't bother with that as much today. I
           | went on a shopping spree a while ago buying a bunch of
           | Williamsburg and Old Holland oil paints and their colors are
           | absolutely amazing, especially the old school heavy metal
           | paints which come in a variety of opacities. Blending them is
           | an art in its own right. Sadly I don't have any skill at
           | painting so it's mostly abstract experiments with color.
        
         | devilbunny wrote:
         | If you want a really interesting version of the work, go to the
         | Royal Delft factory. They made a reproduction in their famous
         | blue tile. It's about the same size as the original.
        
         | dclowd9901 wrote:
         | For me, it took going to Van Gogh's museum in Amsterdam to
         | really get it. The way they contextualize and explain his work
         | and the actual lighting of the museum is something to
         | experience first hand.
        
           | AlecSchueler wrote:
           | There are several centuries between the Dutch Golden Age and
           | Van Gogh.
        
           | graftak wrote:
           | Van Gogh is modern art
        
         | ghaff wrote:
         | Yeah, it's not really fair to associate quality with size
         | but... Thomas Cole's huge works. Most of Rembrandt's famous
         | works are fairly large. Etc. I admit to not being an especial
         | admirer of the Mona Lisa but certainly larger works grab our
         | attention more.
        
         | archagon wrote:
         | I was walking around the Rijksmuseum just yesterday and had the
         | same thought. Except: Rembrandt's paintings stood out to me
         | among those of his peers. His subjects didn't feel posed and
         | his lighting and setpieces felt soft and naturalistic, not
         | artificial. Each canvas gave the impression of an intimate peek
         | into someone's life. The style almost reminded me of late
         | Romantic paintings (e.g. Peredvizhniki) that came 200 years
         | later.
        
         | didntcheck wrote:
         | When I visited I think I spent more time looking at the
         | architecture of the building than the collections. It's very
         | nice. Similar story with the Louvre I suppose - I never went
         | in, but enjoyed walking past the pyramid exterior in the
         | evening
        
         | mmustapic wrote:
         | What I do like about those paintings is the techniques used:
         | relief to give some parts more volume, simple strokes to
         | portray glass or metal reflections, other kind of simple
         | strokes for textiles. As you say, now we have photographs, but
         | it amazes me how what they could do without that technology.
        
       | ikari_pl wrote:
       | I used to have it as a full wall wallpaper in the living room
       | where I was growing up.
        
       | timwaagh wrote:
       | Rembrandt did not work in this resolution so i think zoomed in it
       | will just be a bunch of random noise.
        
         | gligorot wrote:
         | I thought the same. But try to zoom in on the eyes, you'll
         | notice fascinating details.
        
         | ErigmolCt wrote:
         | Some of the magic happens at a distance
        
           | roughly wrote:
           | This is true for a great many things
        
       | ssfrr wrote:
       | > an error of even 1/8 mm in the placement of the camera would
       | result in a useless image.
       | 
       | That doesn't make sense to me. Presumably part of the image
       | stitching process is aligning the images to each other based on
       | the areas they overlap, so why do they need that much precision
       | in the camera placement? I'd think keeping the camera square to
       | the painting would be important to minimize needing to skew the
       | images, but that doesn't seem to be what they're talking about.
        
         | gertlex wrote:
         | I assumed it was mostly distance from painting surface to
         | camera that needed to be controlled for.
        
         | ipsum2 wrote:
         | The camera is manual focused, so 1/8mm would make it out of
         | focus.
        
       | Daub wrote:
       | Shortly after the painting was completed it was cropped so that
       | it would fit on the wall. See if you can guess which edge was the
       | victim.
       | 
       | Of the high resolution image itself... I teach painting and
       | regularly use such images as teaching aids. I honesty belive that
       | they have as much teaching value (or even more) than seeing the
       | real thing. The details of paint applicationare magnificently
       | clear in such images.
        
         | grumple wrote:
         | It was actually cropped on all 4 sides:
         | https://news.artnet.com/art-world/operation-night-watch-1982...
        
       | grugagag wrote:
       | Fascinating to see how the paint cracked. I zoomed in around the
       | faces of the three men on the bottom right hand side and there
       | are light areas on their faces with few cracks and dark areas
       | with lots of cracks, eg around the noses. I wonder what caused
       | that.
        
         | mejutoco wrote:
         | I do not know of course, but black oil painting cracks more
         | than other colours. I think it is common to mix black colour
         | with a bit of dark blue to avoid excessive cracking. That could
         | be a potential explanation.
        
         | BurningFrog wrote:
         | A next step could be to "restore" those cracks in the image,
         | and get an image of how it looked when new.
        
       | ph1l337 wrote:
       | Feels like you could make a fun game out of guessing where in the
       | image you in the most zoomed in level.
        
       | ck2 wrote:
       | Very vaguely related to image detail but you know what similarly
       | impressed the heck out of me:
       | 
       | you know that first ever imaging of a black hole using telescopes
       | across the globe and even the poles to make the signal gathering
       | as wide as possible?
       | 
       | well that telescope (interferometer) could also image a TENNIS
       | BALL on the MOON
       | 
       | (in perspective currently 5 meters is the best resolution of the
       | moon we have and they only get like one or two photons back when
       | they bounce a laser off that mirror the astronauts left there)
       | 
       | So are we going to enter an era where we can get ten more times
       | out of existing telescopes with exponentially better sensors?
        
         | zokier wrote:
         | There is fairly significant difference in radio observations
         | and visible spectrum imaging though. You aren't going to get 5m
         | resolution visible light image of the Moon any time soon.
        
       | nofunsir wrote:
       | reminds me of microsoft seadragon/photosynth
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software
        
         | tecleandor wrote:
         | It's basically the same technique. Same as Google Maps too
        
           | brookst wrote:
           | The tiled zoom thing is everywhere, and lots of museums
           | publish high resolution images this way. There's a handy tool
           | to reconstruct an image at any zoom level from a url:
           | https://dezoomify-rs.ophir.dev/
        
       | mrs6969 wrote:
       | I am literally standing in the museum, looking at night watch as
       | this moment, and saw this post. Legend.
        
         | ErigmolCt wrote:
         | Enjoy the moment and soak in all the details
        
         | mmooss wrote:
         | It's interesting that while standing in front of the painting,
         | someone would be looking at their phone, and that they would
         | look at a photograph of the painting.
        
         | j4coh wrote:
         | Hacker News in one eye and the painting in the other?
        
         | rtaylorgarlock wrote:
         | Get off yo phone!!! ;)
         | 
         | I got to watch them do some of the scanning when I walked
         | through the museum on a trip a couple years ago. Very cool
         | setup.
        
       | josefrichter wrote:
       | Did we just take down the website?
        
       | BrandoElFollito wrote:
       | First time I visited the Rijksmuseum I was of course excited to
       | see the night watch. I found it on a side wall, 20x15 cm and was
       | really surprised. I was expecting something more grandiose.
       | 
       | But never mind, I love paintings from that era so I went on
       | admiring the others.
       | 
       | At some point I was in the middle of the central corridor and it
       | then hit me... Wow.
       | 
       | Before getting to the main part of the museum, there were two
       | temporary exhibitions. One was about doll houses and the other
       | was about the activities (work) on a 17th century ship.
       | 
       | The latter was amazing. I was traumatized by the surgeon work,
       | and his 5 tools... 5 tools to handle all injuries - how happy I
       | am too live in France in the 21st century
        
         | dralley wrote:
         | The Nights Watch takes up nearly an entire wall, not sure what
         | you saw but it wasn't the actual painting.
        
           | I-M-S wrote:
           | Not only does it take up the entire wall, IIRC part of it was
           | actually cut in order for it to fit that wall.
        
           | BrandoElFollito wrote:
           | That's the point - As a sibling comment says - there is a
           | small replica and then suddenly I saw the whole painting at
           | the end of the central corridor. This was a "wow" moment, and
           | an unexpected one
        
         | tnolet wrote:
         | You saw the small replica Rembrandt made for the dude who
         | commissioned the painting. He wanted one to hang in his home.
         | It's much smaller than the actual piece, which covers a whole
         | wall.
         | 
         | And indeed, the large one got a chunk cut off at some stage as
         | they had to move it. This was long ago when Rembrandt was not
         | particularly in vogue.
        
         | BrandoElFollito wrote:
         | Since it was not clear from my comment: _" At some point I was
         | in the middle of the central corridor and it then hit me...
         | Wow"_ was when I discovered the real painting on a whole wall
         | at the end of the central corridor. It was amazing
        
           | lysace wrote:
           | This gives some context to the the size:
           | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40137724
        
       | diego_moita wrote:
       | The Rijksmuseum is on my top 5 list of museums I've ever visited,
       | along with the Vatican Museum, the Louvre, the Met and the
       | Uffizzi.
       | 
       | There are a lot more interesting works in there including
       | Vermeer, other Rembrandt works, Pieter DeHooch, Rubens, the whole
       | golden era of Dutch Renaissance...
       | 
       | Since you're in Amsterdam already save some time to visit the
       | VanGogh Museum, very close to Rijksmuseum.
       | 
       | And since you're in Netherlands already save some time to go to
       | Den Hag (the Hague) to visit the Maritius Huis museum and the
       | cool M.C. Escher museum.
        
         | dralley wrote:
         | Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is very nice. The inside is
         | basically a palace.
        
       | JohnKemeny wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       | Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online (125
       | comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151934
       | 
       | Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022) (40 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778166
        
       | charles_f wrote:
       | There's something oddly satisfying in that you keep zooming in
       | impressively close, and the image remains clean and non blurry.
        
         | dclowd9901 wrote:
         | The map or whatever they use to achieve the online widget is
         | extremely impressive. I've never seen such a clean
         | implementation of a progressively loading zoom tool like that
         | before, apart from in map applications and even they often
         | suffer from buffering.
        
           | seacourt wrote:
           | It was built with https://micr.io/
        
           | ghosty141 wrote:
           | Now if it would just support mousewheel zooming... Thats my
           | only problem with the viewer.
        
       | FredPret wrote:
       | This is why it always pays to do your best work down to the
       | smallest detail.
       | 
       | You never know if, 400 years later, people are going to invent a
       | way to examine it atom by atom.
        
       | canjobear wrote:
       | It's a pdf, you can zoom in as much as you want?
       | https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
        
       | besttof wrote:
       | A colleague of mine made this very nice way to explore the
       | (often) high resolution images from their collection:
       | 
       | https://rijkscollection.net/
       | 
       | Highly recommended and easy to fall into a "rijkscollection hole"
       | for a bit :)
        
         | GrumpyNl wrote:
         | Works better than the one mentioned in the title, this one let
         | you zoom in and out with scroll weel.
        
           | tambourine_man wrote:
           | *scroll wheel
        
         | drng wrote:
         | This is super cool. Thanks for sharing the link
        
         | UberFly wrote:
         | This is really nice to use. Is this how this wing of the
         | gallery actually looks?
        
           | supakeen wrote:
           | No, it looks different from this.
        
         | diego_moita wrote:
         | Technically it is an interesting project.
         | 
         | But anyone who has visited the museum will find it weird. It is
         | very different. The building architecture is very different,
         | there are thousands more works in the exposition, and the order
         | of the works is very different, ...
        
       | mmooss wrote:
       | This page is a bit better, and lets you zoom to the pixel level
       | (they say):
       | 
       | https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch?...
        
       | OldGuyInTheClub wrote:
       | This is a remarkable complement to seeing a work of art in
       | person. We can get close through zoom in ways that we couldn't at
       | the museum without putting the piece at risk.
        
       | KaiserPro wrote:
       | I spent ages looking at this painting, and I still can't find
       | commander vimes.
        
       | dewarrn1 wrote:
       | This is cool! We visited the Rijksmuseum while they were doing
       | the photography: automated but still painstaking work.
        
       | roflmaostc wrote:
       | Related to it, there is a company doing that for microscopy. Did
       | an internship once there
       | 
       | https://gallery.ramonaoptics.com/gallery
        
       | lovegrenoble wrote:
       | Direct link to image: https://hyper-
       | resolution.org/view.html?pointer=0.375,0.000&r...
        
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