![Prokudin-Gorskii Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov, by Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky, ca. 1910.](http://4f.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Prokudin-Gorskii-150x150.jpg)
Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov,
by Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky,
ca. 1910.
Computer program developers in particular will recognize the zeal and perseverance it most have taken the photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and the computer scientist Blaise Agüera y Arcas to produce them. They will also recognize the insouciant way people accept the result.
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