[MaxRegret]

Steve Mould just released a video about the microscopy technique that was used to capture this 3D relief of the painting: https://youtu.be/o-dZKBwbsis

[petargyurov]

The microscope used for this is mind blowing. Falls squarely into the list of things I want but do not need.

[justsid]

After watching the video I was trying to find out just how much one of those microscopes cost. Couldn’t find a price anywhere so I’m assuming it’s far out of my budget. But this kind of video is probably the greatest kind of ad there is, just genuinely showing how cool something is. Don’t have a use for it either though, but I would love to have one anyways.

[j_bum]

I want one so badly, some of that footage is just unreal

My first guess was that it’s a clean $30k. Now I’m going to add a digit and guess $100k.

[frainfreeze]

Was it the same approach? The 3D relief has artifacts akin to ones produced by heightmaps

[jedimastert]

This would line up with the approach talked about in the video. In very short terms, pictures were taken at various focus distances and height was defined as whichever distance was the sharpest. This would essentially make a 2D height map with all of the artifacts that would come with it

[artimaeis]

Click the "3D" button on the bottom-center toolbar to see the 3D scan artifact.