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- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57Unbeknown to most, a millimiter is a unit of measurement equal to one million mites.
- manitcor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49just give up with your pathetic attempt at advertising.
- LemonHerb, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31If it really was derived from the french we would call it the freedommeter now.
- Export, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22this is more than one thread i've seen you dumping your crappy links in
- bjohnsonwsu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Little known fact: DaVinci invented the Dot Matrix printer.*
* total freakin lie - StarWarsFever, on 10/12/2007, -12/+29"He may have made one square millimiter a day. This means it might have taken Leonardo about 10 years to complete the Mona Lisa," Franck said.
From what i have researched in the past, and read currently.... seen on History channel, etc., the above statement is completely false. The Mona Lisa was NEVER completed. Da Vinci carried this painting around with him his entire life... always changing and repainting certain aspects of the painting. Perhaps that's why there are so many layers. Plus, i don't like how the author spells "millimiter"
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I'll still Digg b/c the Mona is hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot, hehe - Jyuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16A telescope to view tiny things?
That's what a MICROSCOPE does, not a goddamn telescope. - zatacka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Actually, the American use is derived from French, which again got it from Latin. This because the metric system, or Système International d'Unités is originally French. Get your facts straights before you try to correct trivia.
- lewis6681, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24This article has nothing to do with Apple; why is it here?
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -1/+14Actually we derive *a lot* of words from French, mostly nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Yes, the French got most of them from Latin, but the reason they exist in English is because France (actually the Normans) conquered England at a time when modern English was still being refined, so a lot of French words were absorbed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Classification_and_related_languages - Caulfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@mikejmu
blocked. enjoy your spam. - bnitro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Examples of this micro-division of tones exist since the ancient Romans. Leonardo took an existing techniques, but used it to the extreme, like nobody else," Franck told Discovery News."
TO THE EXTREME! - brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I might sound really ignorant but...
The Mona Lisa is just one painting amongst many others in the Louvre. Honestly, alot of them are alot more beautiful.
And Leonardo is a genius. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ten years! Dude. Bob Ross used to make an entire painting in less than a half hour!
- T-Maaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5just paint happy clouds... :-)
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Funniest quote from the article: "Franck argues that it is scientifically impossible to distinguish the dots with a magnifying glass." What the hell is that supposed to mean? What is scientific about seeing? How about just the regular kind of seeing? This sounds a lot like the emperor's new clothes to me.
- bristolz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer - Bio
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_198.html - Did tycoon Armand Hammer have anything to do with Arm & Hammer baking soda? - TexMachina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How many centuries have we been looking at that painting and we are still learning things from it?
That man really did epitomize the ideal of a genius. - T-Maaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just a random (and quite possibly incorrect) thought... but wouldn't any cohesive liquid have this effect, at some level of magnification?
DaVinci was a genuis, and I'm not downplaying him in any way... just trying to see if there is a logical thought to this, other than him painting 10 mm square over 10 years (as they incorrectly imply in the article)
Wouldn't any liquid applied to a surface (especially a porous/woven one, like canvas) tend to puddle or create droplets depending on quantity applied, on any substrate? Could this not be just the natural occurance of using very minimal amounts of some pigmentation in a suspension liquid?
They don't show the actual magnification image, to show if the dots appear in a deliberate pattern, or if they are random... they just show how the researcher/artist recreated the effect. - birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People love conspiracy theories. Next thing they'll tell us is they've found a canvas behind the paint and dorks will go "OOOOOHHHHH"
- bdeisgn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Because some of us have culture and appreciation for art.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't forget the silly woman has no eyebrows.
Most people miss that when they look at the painting.
As far as microdots, isn't it far more likely that instead of the deliberate painting of the dots, its just some impurity in the paint that may have caused it to discolor or oxidize over time producing these dots?? - jagnum1fan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5A lot of French words are derived from the Turkish language as well... Just to let you know...
- gcauthon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Wow, the Louvre has a telescope that can see invisible dots? This is the first time anyone has seen something that is invisible. You would think this would be all over the news.
- Areku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Depending on the wood, it could in fact be very porous.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks like we can add "inkjet printer" to Leonardo's list of ahead-of-his-time inventions! ;-)
The description of this article is unfunny and bordeline illiterate, despite attempts to be otherwise. Should have stopped after the first sentence. - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3She rejected you at the pub, huh?
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Of course not! He used his amazing super hero powers of X-Ray vision and Invisight. I think...
- Dragular, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Also, unknown to some people, some words in some languages come from some words in other languages. Odd but true!
- akatrito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nope, there's actually a museum called "Armand Hammer" no joke. http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/ the museum, i believe, is where they also hold the Armand Hammer Centre for Leonardo Studies.
- edenlover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Michel Chevreul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Eug%C3%A8ne_Chevreul) and impressionist painters, you are a bit late.
- Areku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Also because the Mona Lisa is one of the most, if not THE most recognizable painting in the world. The mysteries behind it have baffled the art world for centuries.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I dunno, the Mona Lisa isn't all that much of a beauty. She's more like someone with some sort of disease that makes their face horribly lumpy. It's a decent painting, but the subject isn't all that amazing herself.
- RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Keep going, your on a roll mate ;)
- lukes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1looking at the image they use in the article, the dots look a lot like strokes of pen in the style common to leonardo and other renaissance artists' drawings, instead of dots. unless they've just borrowed a stock photograph, the marks in the left hand side of the image look like lines of underdrawing where leonardo would have sketched his final composition to the canvas. compare the image in the discovery article http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060403/gallery/monalisa_goto.jpg to http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/sketch/headjman.jpg
- MysticSavage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Actually, I'll save you the time. The dots, when strung together, read "Dan Brown's A Douchebag".
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Wot a load of carp bollocks.
I have proof that Leonardo put invisible messages on the Mona Lisa using invisible brush strokes and invisible paint. I'd show them to you but the Louvre won't let me near the painting with my magic marker. - AeonTorpor, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8"I'll still Digg b/c the Mona is hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot, hehe"
Some say the Mona Lisa is a feminized version of Leonardo himself. Hot?.... ewwww. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think I speak for everyone when I say...huh?
- liquidcoooled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would have thought that the tiny minute strokes would be caused by the tiny minute bristles of a brush.
I seriously doubt he painted the entire thing with essentially a pin, but have no trouble seeing him spending years tweaking and modifying it layer after layer to get it just right. - benska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mona Lisa is not the most famous painting in the world because of millions of tiny dots. It is because Leonardo spent countless hours studying and sketching corpses his whole life. His sketches are so accurate that they are still placed in some medical textbooks. Leonardo was the first to sketch out the Human nervous system. He knew the body inside and out, and that is how he was able to create a smile of perfection.
- Gagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Da Vinci would turn in his grave if he read such an article....
At leasts it proves he was a genius. Even our "great" technology can't figure out his paintings ! - bdrewery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Please learn how to spell "a lot", thanks.
- BenS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"According to Franck, details such as the smile and eyes contain between 30 and 40 brush strokes per millimeter; essentially, Leonardo was working as a miniaturist would.
"He may have made one square millimiter a day. This means it might have taken Leonardo about 10 years to complete the Mona Lisa," Franck said."
So in total there was roughly 146,000 brush strokes? - csopelario, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6I'm telling you, it's that Da Vinci Code crap... ;P
- MrTuski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is painted on a thin panel of wood... so it is not exactly porous.
- lexbaby, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5That was my first thought. Viral advertising for the movie.
- joxrox22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No wonder he carried Mona around all his life. As painter to me da Vinci is beyond brilliance he was savant. Pointilism of Mona Lisa. Sonafabitch I'm envious of.
- CrioKnight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Shows that genius has no time period. His skills prove why he is known as one of the masters.
- lastknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"MILIA" is the latin for une thousand. Like "METRUS", measure.
French is just another latin-based language... -
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