I have written a blog entry on this before, here, where I explained how the people at google earth are making 14 giga pixel sized digital “copies” of famous artwork, see the video by clicking here, which very very much inspired me to try something similar, while not at the same size since my computer right now can not handle blending 300, 10 megapixel, images all at once.
I have talked to a friend of mine, Emily Shields, who I knew had some artwork that I could work with, and I managed to convince her to allow me to make such a “digital copy” of one of her oil paintings. Here’s the result: