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The Starry Night (1889)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Theo Van Gogh's Weird Hat

The Museum of Modern Art has an upload of their latest digitization of the painting. In 2020, they finished a new digitization where they catalogued each little bit of paint on it to a precision of three microns. It's a 3D rendering made of over 329 million points of data. This is one of the most massively analyzed things on Earth, just ever.

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