The Last Supper in 16 Billion Pixels - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog:
A click, not a flight, away now. (Image: Leonardo Da Vinci, via Haltadefinizione.com)
In the old days, seeing “The Last Supper” meant flying to Milan and then waiting on a long line. Over the weekend, though, a high-definition digital image of the painting was posted to the Web by HAL9000, an Italian company named after the icewater-voiced computer in the film “2001: Space Odyssey.”
