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- 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I am astounded by just how smart, versatile and prolific that guy was.
- LabattsBlue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22What's incredible is that in the 1500's under the Medici family's rule Florence was the center of the Renaissance.
Each of these incredible men were in Florence in that period!
Dante,
Boccaccio,
Botticelli,
Donatello,
Galileo,
Raphael,
Michelangelo,
Leonardo
One has to wonder why the environment of the time nurtured such genious in one generation. - IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I am astounded how people are just discovering about DaVinci. Advertising $$$ makes a lot of difference in people's perception of reality.
- pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The Medici family was paying these guys to go off and use their brains and produce amazing things. This is similar to google letting their employees work on their on projects 20 percent of the time and in that time they come up with the most interesting services google offers. GE also used to let their engineers go off and design whatever they wanted and some pretty revolutionary inventions came about. Bill Gates should fill the role of the Medici family and fund the smartest people he can round up. Even though we live in a very capitlistic society its still important to allow smart people to go off on their own and invent things that elevate mankind even if no money is to be made from their creations.
- staple, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14but the ninja turtles are from new york...
- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://www.duggmirror.com/design/3D_models_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci%e2%80%99s_Machines/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Translated version of the coralized page: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardo3.net.nyud.net%3A8080%2Fleonardo%2Fmachines_eng.htm%3Fcoral-no-redirect&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
- H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So far ahead of his time....double digg!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thank God for my cache.
I have mirrored the page on my own site.
http://www.brianpinard.com/digg/machines_eng.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Translated by Google: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.leonardo3.net/leonardo/machines_eng.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.leonardo3.net/leonardo/machines_eng.htm%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2006-11,GGGL:en
- zionKing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Next time my teacher catches me drawing ***** & balls"
wtf, *next* time? dude stop drawing ***** n balls period. - homeobocks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Make circular assault tanks that could be destroyed by a child?
- redalert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can only imagine what someone as smart and inovative as him would be able to do in todays society.
- PhrosTT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3anybody else notice the ***** drawings as the bottom of the page?
- TheGalacticFork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3DaVinci made some dark stuff.....
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cool site, yet I didn't see a single 3d model. These are what you call 3d renders. A model would be a file you can open in a 3d rendering program and render / view it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No transistor, no digg... hahaha j/k. Neat stuff.
He'd be a very unpopular (and despised) nerd nowadays, at the bottom of today's crap culture. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2LOL. Must be part of the Da Vinci code?
- mjenkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, it has been done...there's a museum in Milan dedicated to Leonardo and they have built lots of models. It's here: http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/Default.htm
I visited it about 15 years ago. - nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.leonardo3.net.nyud.net:8080/leonardo/machines_eng.htm?coral-no-redirect
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Instead of recreating these things in a digital medium, why don't people physically build them for display somewhere? (Or has this been done already?) I'd go see them.
- gader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw all these models in person at an exhibit in St.Petersburg Russia. Pretty cool and they all worked. When the guards weren't looking, got to play with a few.
- flyingspatula, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So many cool machines and designs.
I wish the website's other pages (i.e. war machines) was written in english... i would love to be able to read the descriptions. - acomj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IBM TJ Watson reasearch center had a lot of built physical models of DaVinci's machines that are displayed in the lobby and cafeteria. That and the old adding machines where really interesting..
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally, I'd like to seem them animated without motion.
- SUPERTOY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Next time my teacher catches me drawing ***** & balls in class, I'm telling her I'm doing a re-creation of a Leonardo Da Vinci sketch.
- boycy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well don't hold back, share with us your hatred of all things, please...
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, he was the sort of guy to draw male sexual organs.
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think that was an idea for a cannon. Doubt he was the type of guy to draw male sexual organs. Or perhaps it was his younger, less famous brother, Frank.
- vitriolage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ummm whats the deal with this image? (can be seen at the bottom of the page)
http://www.brianpinard.com/digg/machines_eng_files/Leonardo3%252520%252520leonardo%252520da%252520vinci%252520www_193.jpg - cvncpu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2what a great and insightful comment
- speedyrev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Tell us how you really feel.
- eleraama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In addition to the Italian museum, at his house in France (Château Clos-Lucé in Amboise; he died there) there are a series of models (a few full-scale) of his inventions, provided by an IBM project. The Castle (which is actually just a really comfortable house near Château Amboise) can be found here: http://www.vinci-closluce.com/
You should go; they have a nice gift shop. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+220 diggs just disappeared wtf
- homeobocks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I can confidently say that Da Vinci was at least 10 years ahead of his time. Like a modern-day John Carmack, except without making money and being awesome like JC.
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1correct, like a QuikcTime VR, I want Quicktime VR!!!!
- rfinnegan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Leonardo da Vinci (ie Leon of Vinci) went to Vinci, Italy (about an hour west of Florence (Firenze) last year which is Leanardo's home town and the museum there has models and full size reconstructions in an old castle - check out http://www.leonet.it/comuni/vinci/
- Comsamvimes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Reminds me of The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. There were a bunch of those models (especially the ones from the Codex Atlanticus) in that game. I remember laughing when I found out you could fire the fragmentation mortar, and it would hit a cow :D
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Where do you think the idea from F*cking Machines came from? Da Vinci, of course! I am still waiting till they discover his mechanical vagina sketches complete with pistons, cranks, and truses.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would love to see these animated in motions.
- Macbeth1989, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0pretty awesome
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Everything there is impressive. I love it, I just don't see why two ladders next to each other is so awesome, though.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2[quote]I am astounded by just how smart, versatile and prolific that guy was.[/quote]
But none of these designs were ever built. Da Vinci was the world's greatest loser. He tried to invent something functional that could be used in war and FAILED. It's inventive in the artistic sense, but you wouldn't really want Da Vinci as your engineer if you wanted something that WORKED. - skipere, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1winxp screen saver !!!!
- mattmac24, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0pretty cool..digg
- JaggedEdge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2just purely amazing.... both the machines and...... that after 80 some digg's the sites down
- FEWrecks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Wasnt there a windows screensaver that already had these?
- jaadfoo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I think Da Vinci built the server too.......
- schmidtl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0aaaaand the page isn't loading. Don't tell me digg killed it already
nevermind, google translator is fixing it, kinda - alej744, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2I hate Leonardo Da Vinci. And all these "3D models" suck. They are boring and gay and their are too many of them.
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