Eric - Nice review of the Leonardo Exhibit. I would like to add that the software was developed by Corbis and is available for sale ($50) at the musuem's gift shop. > On the side of the exhibit floor are a generous number of computer > stations with absolutely the hippest piece of exhibition software I > have ever seen in my born days. I can't begin to describe it > adequately in this forum, but effectively the software displayed a > facsimile of all the pages, at full size. With a click of the mouse, > one could portray a mirror image of the facsimile (since Leonardo > wrote these in his famous mirror handwriting, that would make the > words appear forward); or one could choose a transcription > into Italian typed text; or a translation into english typed text. > Cool enough, as this would happen virtually immediately. > > Even more amazing is that one could choose a "lens" which passed over > the text with the same choices independent of the background text. > Therefore, one could have the background text in, for example, facing > forward facsimile, and have the lens go over about a 1/4 of the page > with the English translations. The illustrative drawings on the > originals were maintained in all of the formats. > > Told you I couldn't describe it adequately. You must see it if you > are interested in any way in computers for learning and computers in > relations to exhibitions. > Fredric J. Raab Interactive Media for Museums Cambridge, MA, USA [log in to unmask] http://www.tiac.net/users/fraab