you can't get closer to Van Eyck than this

Last weekend De Standaard wrote about an incredible, 100 billion pixel, project sponsored by The Getty Foundation. Amazing stuff and nobody, as far as I know, bothered picking it up. Check out http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home and be blown off your feet by the rendering of the famous Ghent Altarpiece now available online.

The project itself consisted of 3 elements: urgent renovation,an assessment of the state this masterpiece is in today and an exercise in technical documentation. The result is a truly amazing website, offering the Ghent Altarpiece in all its detail. You get macrophotograpy, infrared macrophotography, infrared reflectograpy and x-radiography views. No stuff for simple devices: loading images can take quite some time but boy, is it worth it! The site also contains reports on the restauration work, statistics, information on dendrochronology, analysis, ... But it's the images that are magic. Impressive!