ASML and the Van Gogh museum established a scientific partnership with the goal to preserve Van Gogh’s invaluable cultural heritage and uncover which techniques and materials were used by the artist.
Check out the following weblink to interact with painting data yourself:
https://impasto.dev/almond-blossom
(painting created by Harm Belt, website created by @larsmaxfield)
With the technical team at ASML Research we built a so-called “condition assessment scanner” for paintings. The scanner creates a topology map at very high detail. This is demonstrated by the video above which clearly shows the impasto technique as used by Van Gogh. The technology allows the conservator to find cracks in the paint at places where the paint may fall off due to delamination.
My contributions are on the image processing turning the immense amount of scanner data into useful data for interactive viewers.
