Art enthusiasts, rejoice: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s preeminent cultural institutions, has released 400,000 digital images of its collection into the public domain.

Several high-resolution backgrounds based on a variety of Star Wars destinations have been released, including images of the Death Star ruins, the planet Hoth, the bridge of the Imperial Star ...

The resulting images are incredible, and represent not just a new art form but potential advances ... with 24-bit color depth at a resolution of 1024 x 768. The team says it should be possible ...