The Last Supper at (172181 x 93611) pixel square resolution

Post Da Vinci Code the book and the movie, the Last Supper does not require much of an introduction. Many myths and stories surround this masterpiece. The only problem is - there are so many look-alikes, enhancements and fakes around that perhaps not many have seen the real thing (which of course, is not hanging at my neighborhood museum either ;-) ).

Thats when I bumped into a BBC online news piece saying they'd found musical notes hidden in the pattern of breads as arranged on the table. I don't know if that harmony of patterns (== music) was a deliberate act or a natural coincidence. How I wish Leonardo Da Vinci had a personal blog in his times ;-)

What really impressed me was this related website (the tech part :-)) Here's the link to the site we anyone can now see the original masterpiece in as much detail as a non-critical eye can perceive! and in an amazingly smooth flash interface.

Site: Heltadefinizone

(teaser site screen-shot)

They say, at 16 billion pixels, its the highest definition picture in the world! Here are the specs of the image:

	Image:							Size: 16.118.035.591 pixel (172181 x 93611) Color depth: 16 bit per channel
	Shots:							May, 7 - 2007 Number of shots: 1677
	Computing:							CPU: 2 Two Quad Core AMD Opteron™ processors 16 Gigabyte RAM memory 2 Terabyte hard disk space
	Photographic Equipment:							Camera: "Nikon D2Xs" Lens: "AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4D IF-ED II" Real time acquisition Software: Nikon Camera Control Pro Postprocessing and real time verification software: Nikon Capture NX

The technology partners for this project include AMD, Nikon, Clause, DiAugustini, iNet and powered by HP. Really impressive stuff. I'd recommend this site - this is research grade material.