Google Earth published 14 Gigapixel photos of part of the Masterpieces from Madrid’s El Prado Museum, made by Madpixel…

Google is really taking over the world… in a very tasteful way, I must add.

Having been on Madrid myself, you usually can’t get this close a look not even being in the museums… you know, security stuff, and having to share the space with other tourists.

There’s also an interesting tidbit on how the pics where taken. No fancy machinery or complex scanning apparel… well, at least not TOO complex. They used what seems to be standard dSLR cameras with special stands and softwares to take several pics from the painting and compensate the angle distortion via software.

For those who didn’t understand the dimension of the photo yet, 14 Gigapixel is about 1400 times a 10 Megapixel picture.

Very nice!

Source: Gizmodo

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