If you ’ve ever daydream of owning a Van Gogh but do n’t quite have tens of millions of dollars to spend on your obsession , Fujifilm has a more affordable choice — kind of . Working with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam , the companyhas developed a three-D scanning and printing processthat accurately reproduces the artist ’s most famous pieces . include the frames , the canvases , and right down to the individual brush strokes . All for a slightly tinny $ 34,000 price tag .
The process , call Reliefography , take Fujifilm seven years to develop , and is so detailed that only three copies can be produced a day . But given even the torn label and hand written notes on the back of a canvas are perfectly recreated , it ’s understandable why the operation is so metre - consuming .
To engagement , recreations of five dissimilar Van Gogh paintings have been produced , limit to 260 written matter each . But more are planned for the future tense . And while the Van Gogh Museum has an single three yr deal with Fujifilm , other galleries are concerned in the engineering science once that partnership expires .
Of course , as accurate as they are , the copy still wo n’t fool away an expert . But for collectors and fancier on a limited budget , this is as close as they ’ll ever get to sustain one of these paintings in their dwelling .
[ FujiFilmviaThe GuardianviaSlashdot ]
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