Hirox, a leading provider of 3D digital microscope technology, has painstakingly created the world’s largest 3D scan, a super-detailed 108-gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting, “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”

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    1 year ago

    Infrared multispectral imaging would be interesting to see what is under the surface, if there are any pentimentos underneath.

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      1 year ago

      Can someone please ELI5, felt like I was reading the wrong language there.

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        1 year ago

        “Pentimentos” just refers to the five-sided breath mints widely known to have been Vermeer’s favorite. Often trace amounts will turn up under a microscope. It’s how they know it’s authentically his.

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          Don’t know if you’re trolling, but pentimenti are small changes or corrections artists do, while drawing/painting.