Is This Rembrandt a Real One?

Roland Piquepaille writes "About a year ago, I told you about how computer scientists from Dartmouth college were investigating digital images. But they're also interested in old paintings authentication, as reports Wired Magazine in The Rembrandt Code. Mathematicians are using high-resolution digital cameras and computers to examine old paintings and evaluate their authenticity. Even the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is asking them to discover which of the 42 paintings it owns and that were once believed to be Rembrandts are really authentic. The Wired article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references about this authentication process."

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Re:What gives?

[matr0x_x]

you didn't know the /. & Zonk were both part of the Illumaniti?

Will the real primate please stand up

[Belseth]

A major use for the software is determining which paintings are by Abstract Impressionist and those by chimpazees. Thus far experts have been unable to reliably determine which was responsible for many works by unknown artists. A musuem recieved an expensive shock when the software determined a Jackson Pollack was actually a house painter with a leaky bucket and the canvas was actually a tarp. The musuem argued back that it was Jackson Pollack with a leaky bucket but the computer was unconvienced by the argument and stuck by it's first conclusion that the tarp was produced by a 300lb house painter named Sid.