HAL9000 Srl from Novara, have produced a digital picture of 8,6 billion pixels showing the Parete Gaudenziana, a fresco made by the painter Gaudenzio Ferrari dated 1513, which can be seen in the partition of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in the convent of Varallo Sesia, diocese of Novara and Province of Vercelli.
The image stands at the boundaries of the modern opportunities as for the final dimensions of the digital picture. The picture has been created joining electronically 1145 images, each 12,2 Megapixel and 16 bit per color channel.
The 8,6 Gigapixel digital picture of the Parete Gaudenziana can be explored in detail on the site www.haltadefinizione.com