@aiconversations: 🎨 An MIT student just restored a 600-year-old painting in 3.5 hours. The same job takes a professional conservator 232 hours by hand. ✅ Alex Kachkine's AI scans damaged artwork and digitally reconstructs every missing section using 57,314 precisely matched colors ✅ The restoration prints onto an ultra-thin transparent mask that lays over the painting and can be fully removed at any time ✅ 66 times faster than traditional hand restoration, published in Nature ✅ Italy's Ministry of Culture is now using it to restore 15th-century frescoes destroyed by a 2016 earthquake ✅ Up to 70% of paintings in museum collections are hidden from public view due to damage The original never has to be touched. Every masterpiece in storage is now a candidate for restoration. Follow for more stories like this. 👇 #MIT #AIArt #ArtRestoration
