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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.
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> 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
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http://www.tiac.net/users/fraab
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