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Explore a 108 billion-pixel scan of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2025-05-01

Hirox made a 108-billion pixel scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring to market its high-resolution imaging hardware. Above, the glint of light on the pearl; below, a crack in the glint of light, and finally the glint of light in three dimensions. [via]

Image: Hirox

Image: Hirox

Here's a video about the scan and the technology:

Previously:

• Enjoy this high-resolution scan of postmortem human brain

• New high-resolution scan of medieval Aberdeen Bestiary

• French museum refused to allow public access to secret 3D scans

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