Google艺术工程（Video + Pic + Text）

Google Art Project

Google和全世界最闻名遐迩的17家博物馆合作推出了Google Art Project，利用街景技术让用户能虚拟浏览博物馆内部珍藏品。这17家博物馆包括伦敦国家美术馆、纽约当代艺术博物馆、纽约大都会艺术博物馆、俄罗斯圣彼得堡冬宫博物馆等。浏览者可足不出户欣赏到1,061幅高分辨率名画，照片分辨率高达70亿像素。Google用了18个月时间制作虚拟博物馆，该项目是作为一个“20%时间项目”起步的。

不过，在中国，你是无法访问这个Google艺术工程网站的，他已经被“墙”，这由不得我想起中国著名的一位“院士”说过的话“谁让你生在中国!”

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screenshot of a visit to new york city's MoMA, as experienced through the 'google art project'


released yesterday by google, 'google art project' brings over a thousand artworks by hundreds of artists 
to the screens of anyone with an internet connection. 

the new program, which permits artworks to be viewed at incredibly high levels of detail, 
adapts the company's 'street view' technology to indoor environments, 
permitting the virtual touring of seventeen renowned art museums.
visitors can also create, comment on, and share their own virtual art collections
compiled from the project's works.



'google art project' permits high-resolution zooming in on projects, to levels otherwise impossible in the museum setting
here, full and 3/4 zoom views of chris ofili's 'no woman, no cry' (london's tate britain)


in 'museum view' rooms are navigable using the onscreen arrows, as in google street view, 
but virtual visitors can also jump to specific artworks from a list of the museum's most renowned works, 
or explore specific parts of the museum by using a hyperlinked floor plan.

the 'museum view' sidebar also contains a brief history of the museum, links to its website, 
and a link to the museum's location on google maps.



extremely high zoom onto vincent van gogh's 'the bedroom' (amsterdam's van gogh museum)


'artwork view' allows visitors to zoom into paintings at high resolution. 
viewing notes on the sidebar offer information about and context for the work, 
as well as interfaces to learn more about the artist or view his other works in google art project.

selected artworks have been treated with google's 'gigapixel photo capturing technology',
generating extremely high resolution images, allegedly composed of seven billion pixels.



the 'google art project' museum-view interface


with the  'create an artwork collection' feature, google accountholders can save and share views 
of their favourite artworks, adding comments to specific zoom levels.





the amount of information included in the project is determined by the individual museums themselves, 
and thus for copyright and other reasons, not all galleries or artworks are necessarily viewable using the tool. 
looking forward, google expects the addition of further museums and their works to the collection.

article source: http://www./weblog/cat/16/view/13079/google-art-project.html