Google Earth Publishes Stunning 14 GIGApixel Photos of El Prado Masterpieces
January 14th, 2009 • • Dave Bergschneider
One of the best things of being in Madrid is El Prado, which has some of the most amazing paintings ever. Now you can see them in Google Earth, at a stunning 14-billion-pixel resolution. Video after the break.
The amazing images are 14 gigapixels, 1,400 times the resolution of a 10 megapixel camera. As you can see in this video, Madpixel doesn’t use any special camera, but a machine-controlled digital camera and algorithms to compensate for deformation and stitch the final result. Zooming in to see the masters’ technique and the detail in the painting is just mindblowing.

