{"id":24366,"date":"2016-04-07T06:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-next-rembrandt-is-a-3d-printed-take-on-the-painters-style"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:23","slug":"the-next-rembrandt-is-a-3d-printed-take-on-the-painters-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-next-rembrandt-is-a-3d-printed-take-on-the-painters-style","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Next Rembrandt\u2019 is a 3D-printed take on the painter\u2019s style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-rembrandt-is-a-3d-printed-take-on-the-painters-style.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Rembrandt painting has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2016\/apr\/05\/new-rembrandt-to-be-unveiled-in-amsterdam\">unveiled<\/a> in Amsterdam on Tuesday, and we\u2019re not talking about a newly discovered work. No, this one called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextrembrandt.com\/\"><em>The Next Rembrandt<\/em><\/a> is truly brand new, created using data, algorithms and a 3D printer within the span of 18 months. A team of data scientists, engineers and scientists from various institutions, including Microsoft and the Rembrandt House Museum, joined forces to create this homage to the great painter. The team examined all the Dutch master\u2019s known paintings to come up with the perfect project: a portrait of a 30 to 40-year-old Caucasian male with facial hair, wearing dark clothes with a collar and a hat on his head, facing to the right.<\/p>\n<p>They then developed algorithms to extract what features make a painting a Rembrandt, such as the face\u2019s shape and proportions. Ron Augustus, Microsoft\u2019s SMB Markets Director, said: \u201cYou could say that we used technology and data like Rembrandt used his paints and his brushes to create something new.\u201d To give their work a real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/09\/28\/ibis-hotels-to-have-robots-paint-art-while-they-track-your-sleep\/\">painting\u2019s<\/a> texture, they used 3D printing techniques to print oil paint in layers. As a result, the portrait <em>feels<\/em> like it was actually painted by a human artist.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which the Netherlands\u2019 ING Bank commissioned ad agency J Walter Thompson to develop, most likely began as a promotional undertaking. As you can see, though, the final product turned out so good that the same technique could be used to make more affordable replicas (maybe even forgeries) of masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/06\/the-next-rembrandt-3d-printed-painting\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/06\/the-next-rembrandt-3d-printed-painting\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Rembrandt painting has been unveiled in Amsterdam on Tuesday, and we\u2019re not talking about a newly discovered work. No, this one called The Next Rembrandt is truly brand new, created using data, algorithms and a 3D printer within the span of 18 months. A team of data scientists, engineers and scientists from various [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-information-science","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67786,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24366\/revisions\/67786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}