GPS helps draw biggest painting in the world 110,664km long
26 May 2008 12:00 GMT / By Stuart Miles
An artist not content with the average sized canvas has drawn the largest painting in the world using the world as his canvas.
Erik Nordenankar, painted the self portrait by putting a GPS device in a briefcase and then giving DHL a very detailed list of instructions on where to take it.
55 days later, and a picture measuring 40,076 x 40,009 miles was created.
According to Nordenankar the GPS automatically recorded the breifcase’s journey around the world and the information was downloaded to his computer to give him the co-ordinates to draw the picture.
The giant stroke passes through six continents and 62 countries.
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