If you’ve ever used Google Earth—or it’s online cousin Google Maps—you know you can pan around an image of the Earth and zoom in on interesting stuff.
As an experiment, the folks at Google have worked with the Prado Museum in Spain to digitize 14 of their paintings and make them available online using the same display technology. Just search for “Prado Museum” in Google Earth, then click on the labeled rectangle to get to a menu of the paintings. Once you click on a painting, you can pan and zoom all over it.
Here’s a quick video I made to show the zoom capability:
You lose a lot of the detail in low-res streaming video. This higher quality version might help, but you really should try it for yourself in Google Earth or you can visit the online Google Maps version of the exhibit.
(Hat tip: Google Blogoscoped.)
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