The Last Supper - Now Online in Amazing Detail.



An Italian technology firm, HAL9000, has created an online mega-composite of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper at an incredible 16 gigapixel resolution (about 2,000 times more detailed than a standard digital photograph). The picture above shows the hands of the person sitting next to Jesus in the Last Supper (the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code), at only a 6% zoom.

I chose this particular image for the benefit of any fellow conspiracy theorists ... doesn't it look a little like a wedding ring on "her" left middle finger?

Link to the Last Supper via Reuters

don't know about the ring, but I just realized the "disembodied hand" holding the knife is really just the hand of that one guy folded back against his hip. Makes so much more sense now.
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dd - that's the neat thing about this project ... instead of being forced to blindly accept/deny Dan Brown's conspiracy theories, or my own, or anyone else's, you can look for yourself.

Ring or not, Jesus's right-hand man/woman still looks pretty effeminate.
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Why do these things for viewing super highres images never let you expand the viewer to full screen?? I'm using a 1920 x 1200 display viewing a 16GP image but stuck in a tiny window around 720 x 400... It's like a giant leap forward & backward at the same time. The viewer at gigapan.org will let you view full screen though or full browser anyway.
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"the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code"

You mean the apostle John, right? No one in the know ever said it was anyone other than an effeminate-looking John until the "Priory" myth was conceived later on, which Dan Brown capitalized heavily on -- a full decade after Pierre Plantard himself admitted it was a complete fraud.
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I still can't believe how seriously people treated that book in the first place. Seriously, I'd swear every other chapter ended with an ellipse...

It was funny.
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