Google pictures in high resolution. Google Art Project: How the largest museum in the world works. How does a neural network work?

Now only the lazy did not publish the news that Google introduced new version its Arts & Culture app, which was released in 2016. This program for Android and iOS is a window into the world of art. Google has digitized high resolution a huge number of paintings and other works of art. This initiative publishes many articles and provides a map of significant cultural sites. A recent update added a fun feature based on a very complex algorithm. Artificial intelligence can use photographs to find a picture that will depict a person similar to you.

The problem is that the function to find yourself in a picture only works in the USA. To bypass this restriction you need to use a VPN. Turbo VPN for Android is perfect for this. Simply select the New York, USA server in the application and connect. Then open the Arts & Culture program and scroll down to the section where you will be asked to find yourself in the picture.

While the user interface is extremely simple, Google uses very complex facial recognition algorithms to compare your character traits with portraits among 70,000 works of art in the Google Art Project database.

There are a huge number of people in the world who, in principle, would not mind visiting museums, but they are just too lazy to get up from a comfortable soft chair to do so. And there are those who are ready to rise from it, but their financial situation or lack of time does not allow them to travel to another city or another country to see the “Mona Lisa”, “The Appearance of Christ to the People” and other masterpieces of painting. Exactly for such people, and indeed for all lovers visual arts, and a resource appeared Art Project from company Google.

Google is making the world different. Thanks to her, we really learned what Space itself looks like, we received the most detailed and voluminous maps in the world, the most convenient and reliable postal service, search engine and much, much more that directly affects our lives.

As another incredibly useful service from Google, we can recall Street View, which allows anyone to walk along the streets of many cities around the world without leaving the computer screen. And now we can not only walk along the streets, but also enter buildings. True, not to all of them, but to specific seventeen buildings, which are the world's largest museums of our time.

This opportunity is given to us by a new service from Google called Art Project, presented on February 1 of this year. This is, in essence, the same Street View, but with its help you can walk not along the streets, but through museums.

On this moment, Seventeen museums from around the world are available on the Google Art Project. These are the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Palace of Versailles in Paris, the National Gallery in London and many other institutions of this kind and scale. From Russian museums The Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage are presented here. But this list will continue to expand and expand.

Using Google Art Project, right on the project’s website, you can walk through the halls of museums, look at interiors, paintings, sculptures, read captions to them, the history of their creation, biographies of artists, leave comments, talk about your impressions, give advice, etc.

The paintings themselves were shot with a resolution of 7 gigapixels (yes, exactly 7 billion pixels!) So connoisseurs of fine art, if desired, can see every crack in the canvases, examine in detail and enjoy the confident strokes of their favorite artists.

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How long to admire the ceiling paintings in the Mirror Gallery of the Palace of Versailles, and then go to look at Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, not forgetting to drop by the Hermitage before that? Now you can do it from the comfort of your couch, thanks to the Google Art Project - a new Google project that has collected more than 1,000 works of art under its roof virtual museum.

Virtual walks available at 5 p.m. big museums peace - from the Museum contemporary art in New York to the Hermitage, from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to the Palace of Versailles. By the way, the Palace of Versailles was the only French museum included in this list.

The Louvre, the world's number one museum in terms of visitors (8.5 million in 2010), did not partner with Google. According to a museum representative, Google approached the Louvre administration with this proposal in 2009, however, the Louvre rejected the proposal, citing the fact that the project seemed vague to them.
The director of the Museum of the Palace of Versailles, Jean-Jacques Ayagon, in turn, is glad that Versailles became the only French museum on this list.

Jean-Jacques Iagon:

What do we gain from this? Everything is very simple. Every year the Palace of Versailles is visited by a huge number of tourists: about 6 million. However, many people in the world dream of seeing Versailles, but will never be able to get here. It is unknown whether those who are on the other side of the world, somewhere in Patagonia, Lapland or on the other side of the world, will ever be able to come to Versailles. Far East, and this project allows those who are not able to come to the Palace of Versailles to see it. When I walk through the Gallery of Mirrors and try to look at the details of the paintings on the ceiling, I often tell myself that they are difficult to see. After all, it’s not every day that we can view the Mirror Gallery from scaffolding. Art project allows you to consider all the details of this cycle, resurrecting important events reign of Louis XIV.

All the museums that responded to Google's call have their own Internet sites, have already digitized thousands of works (60% of the 60,000 works of the Versailles Museum exist in digital form) and offer virtual tours of their halls. What attracted them to Google Art Project? First of all, latest technologies offered free of charge by an American corporation.

Each museum selected one painting, which was digitized in “gigapixel” format, that is, at a resolution a thousand times higher than that of a standard digital camera.

Another important innovation: the use of Street Views, which allows you to freely walk around virtual halls, turning 360 degrees.

After latest technologies Google Art Project will Internet users visit the websites of partner museums? “Our own website traffic doubled the day after the Google Art Project launched.”, says Laurent Gaveau, responsible for new media projects at the Palace of Versailles.

In addition to the technical qualities of the project, Jean-Jacques Ayagon sees in it a symbolic meaning.

And look forward to new ones virtual travel. The weekend is ahead, and I am pleased to offer you another great way how to spend them usefully and at the same time improve your cultural level.

Would you like to visit, for example, the Kampa Museum in Prague? Or the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam? Or maybe you haven’t been to the Tretyakov Gallery or the Hermitage yet? No question – in just a couple of minutes all this will become real for you!

You will walk through the halls and examine with your own eyes wonderful works art. Make yourself comfortable, because now I’m going to tell you about something truly amazing. online service from Google.

- this is a truly grandiose project that allows a person, without leaving home, to immediately visit 17 famous museums cities such as New York, Berlin, Prague, Amsterdam, Moscow, etc.

This service has brought together more than a thousand works of art, making them accessible from anywhere in the world. According to critics, the virtual museum from Google allows you to move to “a qualitatively new level of preservation and transmission cultural heritage future generations."

The creators of this virtual museum service have done a lot of hard work. They transferred to the museum premises the Street View technology they had already tested on the Google Earth project, which allows you to see everything as if you were walking through the halls of the exhibition. You can move in all directions, you can move from hall to hall, you can approach any painting and look at it in the smallest details.

Possibilities of a virtual museum

Here I would like to go into a little more detail. The fact is that works of art are filmed in the smallest detail: you can see the faintest and most imperceptible brush strokes of the artist. Moreover, each museum highlighted one painting, which was photographed with a resolution of 7 thousand megapixels, which is billions of pixels! It seems incredible, but you can really see even the smallest cracks in the canvas! Imagine what a gift this is for special art lovers!

By clicking the " i"in the right corner of the virtual museum screen, a panel will open where the following information will be available:

• museum plan
• description of the room where you are now
• information about the painting (title, author, dimensions)
• artist biography
• video about the history of the painting
• interesting historical notes etc.

You can leave comments for each work of art, share your impressions, and give links to your friends. In general, you can spend more than one day here, mouth open in amazement.

According to Google Vice President of Engineering Nelson Mattos, Google is not trying to make a full-fledged alternative to visiting museums in reality. On the contrary, with their project they want to push people towards this, because after seeing a picture on a monitor screen, a person will definitely want to see it with his own eyes live.

Needless to say, Google knows how to make high-quality, in-demand products the highest level! The creators of the Google Art Project intend to gradually add more and more museums around the world to their project. Let's wish them good luck in this - after all, they are doing a really significant project for humanity.

Video about how the project was created and what work had to be done to implement it (I recommend watching):

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Google Arts & Culture is a project of Google, a recognized leader in the multimedia technology market, which includes a collection of high-quality images of works of art from famous museums And art galleries peace. The project makes it possible to take virtual walks through the halls of museums, and high-precision digitization of works of art allows you not only to see, but also to examine in detail the masterpieces of world art.

In 2012, the State Russian Museum became one of the first Russian museums to take part in the Google Arts & Culture project along with the Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin and the Museum named after N.K. Roerich. Every year the number of participants grows. About 250 partners take part in the project, more than 45,000 works of art are presented, 50 of which are masterpieces from the collection of the Russian Museum.

As part of the Google Arts & Culture project, panoramic photography was carried out at the Russian Museum of 36 halls of the museum’s main exhibition, located in the Mikhailovsky Palace, panoramic shooting on the territory of the Summer and Mikhailovsky Gardens, cour d'honneur of the Mikhailovsky Palace, courtyard Mikhailovsky Castle and Maple Alley. In February 2012, Google employees took a gigapixel photograph of Karl Bryullov’s painting “The Last Day of Pompeii.”

Gigapixel image

Google projects are living, developing, they not only open up enormous material for specialists and art lovers around the world, but also become a platform for talking about the main activities of museums in the popular Google Art Talks project. In 2013, the Russian Museum took part in the video meeting “Art Talk with the State Russian Museum” (“Conversations about art with the Russian Museum”). The theme of the meeting was “Computer technologies in the sphere of culture: breaking the virtual field of the painting.”

The conversation was attended by the head and employees of the development department “Russian Museum: virtual branch”, as well as the heads of virtual branches of the Russian Museum in the cities of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg State University) and Turku (Finnish-language People's Institute).