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Is This Rembrandt a Real One?

Posted by Zonk on from the i-wish-i-had-this-kind-of-problem dept.

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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  1. What gives? by BWJones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know that it is a Slashdot controversy, but can anyone tell me here whether or not the Slashdot editors have addressed just why it is that so many of Roland Piquepaille's articles get posted, particularly by Zonk? Does he really submit that many articles to Slashdot? I know that there have been a number of instances where some Slashdot users have submitted articles only to have them rejected and later accepted after submission by Roland Piquepaille... So, what gives?

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    1. Re:What gives? by John+Harrison · · Score: 5, Interesting

      BW,

      I recently had a long email conversation about this with Taco. He basically isn't interested in feedback, which seems very not in the spirit of open source to me. He also said that /. doesn't track who is submitting what and doesn't care about a submitter's positive or negative track record because it would be hard to keep track of such things. If only there were a way of automating the process...

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    2. Re:What gives? by BWJones · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I guess you have noticed the censorship of this thread by someone with unlimited mod points.... Previously, this was just a curiosity to me, but with the censorship on top, I've become fairly irritated by this. So much so that I've just sent a couple of emails to journalists I know that cover the technology beats for publications like Wired, Macworld and the New York Times. This may get absolutely no traction at all, but Slashdot has become a big enough resource to drive Internet traffic that this may in fact, become an issue.

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