Tim’s Vermeer @EG showing that a mechanistic technique, not painting talent, is likely to be the secret of Vermeer

2 responses to “Tim’s Vermeer @EG showing that a mechanistic technique, not painting talent, is likely to be the secret of Vermeer”

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   jurvetson

   May 5, 2014 at 5:43 am

   Detail in the rug An inspection on stage and interviewed by master art forger Ken Perenyi where we learn that both of Vermeer’s parents were caught as fraudsters.

   And now, a nice summary of the technique in BoingBoing

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   andyi

   May 6, 2014 at 5:20 am

   The rug sold me further on this idea. It screamed out "technology demo," a proof of something that this exclusive technique could do that competing painters couldn’t.

   It reminded me of so many briefings in which I was shown a rendered or captured image. It’s a beautiful synthetic image of a woman’s face, but the purpose is to point out that this GPU can render layers of skin with different levels of translucency, all in realtime etc.

   I find it so easy to imagine the original Vermeer hanging on a consumer’s wall, and people gawking at it the same way that people gawk at the first 4K display they’ve ever seen.

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