The Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, is opening its doors on an exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Leonardo, and modern technology will be very much the star of the show.
OK, we've all gazed into the crystal ball to try to divine what Leonardo was thinking while he was painting The Last Supper. Turns out the folks at the Franklin Institute have some surprises in store for visitors, including results of digital restoration that clearly show something new — some fish and orange slices on plates on the table and a bell tower towering in the distance.The buzz will most certainly be on the touchscreens, though, which can reveal not only a 2D representation of crossbows, flying machines, and robots that sprung from the fertile mind of the genius Leonardo but also a 3D simulation of what those things would have been like in real life. (Some of the inventions never made it off the page, so this will be a first indeed.)
One thing sure to stop people in their tracks will be a representation of the famed Mechanical Lion, a gift to King Francis I of France in 1515. Also on display will be pages from Leonardo's famed Codex Atlanticus, his book of drawings in which he wrote backwards. Surely that touchscreen technology can be used to flip the writing and read what the true Renaissance Man had to say without getting out a pocket mirror.
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