Google Earth Publishes Stunning 14 GIGApixel Photos of El Prado Masterpieces

One of the good thing of being back in Madrid is El Prado , which has some of the most awing paintings ever . Now you could see them in Google Earth , at a arresting 14 - billion - picture element resolution .

Although there ’s nothing corresponding - in my case , to the point of make goosebumps - to standing in front of Las Meninas ( or any of the Velazquez masterpieces , for that matter ) , the dark Goyas , or the Fusilamientos del Tres de Mayo , this is the nigh you’re able to get to them from anywhere in the humans . In fact , you could get closerer and closerer than in front of the real affair , unless you require some Prado stave clod to hit you on the ramification with a taser .

The awe-inspiring images are 14 gigapixels , 1,400 times the resolution of a 10 megapixel tv camera . As you’re able to see in this video , Madpixel does n’t apply any special camera , but a machine - curb digital camera and algorithms to overcompensate for contortion and stitch the concluding solvent . Zooming in to see the masters ’ technique and the contingent in the painting is just mindblowing .