
The Starry Night (1889)
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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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