3D printed Rembrandt

Although Rembrandt died in 1669, his artistic legacy lives on in the shape of an ambitious high-tech painting project. Unveiled in Amsterdam Tuesday "The Next Rembrandt" was crafted by an unlikely duo: technology and algorithms that were able to study, mimic, and then create a 3D printed painting based on the famous artist's work. The painting carefully mimics Rembrandt van Rijn's style. The team behind the painting undertook an 18-month evaluation and analysis of Rembrandt's entire body of work (346 paintings) using high-resolution 3D scans and digital files. After the team determined that a majority of his work consists of portraits, the image of a "Caucasian male between the age of thirty and forty, with facial hair, wearing black clothes with a white collar and a hat, facing to the right" was determined to be the proper subject using a demographic segmentation of the people in the portraits.