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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The Anatomist

A dose of culture for all you neanderthals, whether you want it or not.


Painted by Gabriel von Max around 1860. This computer stuff is getting pretty amazing when you can get pictures like this on your desktop. A high resolution image (800 x 574) is also available. Note that this large image is actually made of four smaller images. The original painting is 190 centimeters across. At 1,000 pixels per inch (which is what I consider the minimum for accurate reproduction), that would mean a good quality copy would be 75,000 pixels across. To put it another way, each pixel in this drawing amounts of about 1/5 of an inch on the original picture.

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