Google Is Preserving Great Works of Art With Its Own Super High-Res Camera

In the first five years of its existence, the Google Cultural Institute worked tirelessly to preserve some of the world's greatest works of art via super-high-resolution gigapixel images on its website. Unfortunately, however, the process was slow and laborious, requiring an entire day to capture a single image -- the result of which was about 200 archived works over the course of the project. Thankfully, however, the project has been able to scan 1,000 additional images in the past few months a...