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Created February 5, 2011 23:22
I'M AFRAID THIS SCRIPT NO LONGER WORKS! MAYBE http://www.student.tugraz.at/kollmitzer/gap_howto.html OR https://github.com/EmelyanenkoK/GAPDownloader DOES. SEE COMMENTS. Google Art Project fullsize image downloader. Specify the page URL and the tiles are downloaded, stitched and trimmed.
# Google Art Project fullsize image downloader.
# By Henrik Nyh <http://henrik.nyh.se> 2011-02-05 under the MIT license.
# Requires Ruby and ImageMagick.
#
# NOTE:
# I'm afraid this script no longer works! See the Gist comments.
#
# Usage e.g.:
# ruby google_art_project.rb http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/tate/portrait-of-william-style-of-langley-174
#