May 14, 2020 10:50:00

`` Operation Night Watch '' that makes it possible to browse 350 years ago masterpieces online with super high resolution of 44.8 gigapixels

The famous work of the 17th-century Dutch painter

Rembrandt van Rijn , known as the ' night watchman, ' is the 44.8 gigapixel history of the ' Citizens of Captain France Banning Coq and Vice Captain Willem van Leitenburg '. Published with the largest and most detailed images. Rembrandt's brushwork, which can only be tasted at an art museum, can be viewed for free on the Internet.

Operation Nightwatch-Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/nightwatch

See Rembrandt's The Night Watch in'hyper resolution 'as 44.8-gigapixel photo-CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/see-rembrandts-the-night-watch-in-hyper-resolution-as-44-8-gigapixel-photo/

On the following pages, you can see Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' in super high quality.

RG Erdmann's hyper-resolution.org
http://hyper-resolution.org/Nightwatch

Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' is below. Rembrandt's masterpiece depicting the Citizen's vigilante who goes to work, and was exhibited at the Rijksmuseum at the time of writing. If you click on the painting on the above site, the clicked part will be zoomed.

Citizen's vigilante captain and vice captain in the center of the painting

You can zoom in on the two faces.

Zoom to the captain's eyes. You can clearly see the traces of oil painting brushes and cracks in the paint.

The following is closer to the captain's eyes. You can browse the paintings at a resolution such as 'Isn't it possible to get closer to this point even in museums?'

The 'night watch' drawn on a 3.79m x 4.53m canvas is an oil painting about 350 years ago, and its deterioration over time has become a problem. 'Operation Night Watch' is a project that tracks the age of the 'night watch' and saves it as a snapshot to prevent deterioration at a resolution of 44,84,847,7500 pixels (about 44.8 gigapixels), 24 rows × 22 columns = It is said that 528 pictures are connected and processed by a neural network to make one painting picture.

In addition, the 'night watch' is scanned every 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) by macro fluorescent X-ray analysis , and the elements contained in the paint such as calcium, iron, potassium, and Ohara degree are also analyzed.

The Rijksmuseum is closed until June 1, 2020 due to the new coronavirus infection. Therefore, at the time of writing the article, there is almost no chance to see the real 'night watch' up close. `` This super-resolution photo is an important source of information for researchers, and you can watch and admire every detail of Rembrandt's masterpiece online, '' said Taco Divitz, director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I can do it. '