This is amazingly beautiful. If it were drawn as isometric projection instead of perspective projection, it would be more in the style of Leonardo da Vinci.
WillAdams•6d ago
Interestingly, Leonardo may have experimented with binocular vs. monocular perspective for at least one alternative version of his _Mona Lisa_:
which makes one wonder if there are instances of his having used other perspectives in his drawings (cabinet for drawings for furniture for his home or workshop for a cabinetmaker, or cavalier for a map/diagram for military planning), and wish that the entirety of his oeuvre were available in a digital format like to the Corbis CD-ROM Leonardo's rendering of the Codex Leceister:
I noted the photographer credit but should have just googled
mikhailfranco•6d ago
Maybe they're original, found buried in some obscure monastery in the mountains of Umbria.
Perhaps Leonardo invented the LHC!
temporallobe•6d ago
Some of the drawings feature what appears to be flying spiders and other similar shapes. Is this supposed to represent particle collisions?
amadio•5d ago
These da Vinci style drawings were likely created using the SketchUp models from sometime ago, which you can download from the page below to play with:
tianqi•6d ago
WillAdams•6d ago
https://monalisa.org/2013/12/15/genius-leonardo-da-vinci-per...
which makes one wonder if there are instances of his having used other perspectives in his drawings (cabinet for drawings for furniture for his home or workshop for a cabinetmaker, or cavalier for a map/diagram for military planning), and wish that the entirety of his oeuvre were available in a digital format like to the Corbis CD-ROM Leonardo's rendering of the Codex Leceister:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/mi...