to the naked eye. take this silk, for example, that's used to cover shrines in the holy mosque in mecca, finally embroidered in both silver— and gold—covered wire. the amount of time, effort and intricacy that's gone into many of these works is a matter of spiritual importance. it's not just art for art's sake, but this is produced for a very particular, sacred, ritualistic and spiritual purpose. that's where the google art camera, which is capturing the minutiae of detail, comes in. 0ur is a custom—built camera, built to capture images of paintings and artworks in super—high resolution. it generates what is called a gigapixel which is an image of overi billion pixels. the camera is equipped with a laser and a sonar and using high—frequency sounds, pretty much like a bat,