Thats when I bumped into a BBC online news piece saying they'd found musical notes hidden in the pattern of breads as arranged on the table. I don't know if that harmony of patterns (== music) was a deliberate act or a natural coincidence. How I wish Leonardo Da Vinci had a personal blog in his times ;-)
What really impressed me was this related website (the tech part :-)) Here's the link to the site we anyone can now see the original masterpiece in as much detail as a non-critical eye can perceive! and in an amazingly smooth flash interface.
Site: Heltadefinizone
(teaser site screen-shot)
They say, at 16 billion pixels, its the highest definition picture in the world! Here are the specs of the image:
Image: | Size: 16.118.035.591 pixel (172181 x 93611) Color depth: 16 bit per channel | |||||||
Shots: | May, 7 - 2007 Number of shots: 1677 | |||||||
CPU: 2 Two Quad Core AMD Opteron™ processors 16 Gigabyte RAM memory 2 Terabyte hard disk space | ||||||||
Photographic Equipment: | Camera: "Nikon D2Xs" Lens: "AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4D IF-ED II" Real time acquisition Software: Nikon Camera Control Pro Postprocessing and real time verification software: Nikon Capture NX |
The technology partners for this project include AMD, Nikon, Clause, DiAugustini, iNet and powered by HP. Really impressive stuff. I'd recommend this site - this is research grade material.