off-topic: Reuters article on DaVinci's Last Supper

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I just saw this article on Reuters, which covers a theory that if you
superimpose DaVinci's Last Supper with its own mirror image, you get a new
image of a Templar night and someone holding a small baby:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070727/wr_nm/italy_lastsupper_theory_dc;_ylt=AimIrSA2KgCxm6wB1a0LXuas0NUE?

The websites that supposedly contain the image are unreachable, so I thought
it would be fun to recreate the image myself using matplotlib and the PIL.
The image is attached, I dont see a Templar knight or anyone holding a small
baby.

Darren

last_supper.png

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Curious, I gave it a try in photoshop. I think you have to line up the doorways & windows to see the effect.
I see someone who looks kinda like they’re holding a baby, but I don’t know what a Templar knight is supposed to look like, so I’m not sure if I saw that or not.

–bb

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On 7/29/07, Darren Dale <dd55@…143…> wrote:

I just saw this article on Reuters, which covers a theory that if you
superimpose DaVinci’s Last Supper with its own mirror image, you get a new
image of a Templar night and someone holding a small baby:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070727/wr_nm/italy_lastsupper_theory_dc;_ylt=AimIrSA2KgCxm6wB1a0LXuas0NUE?

The websites that supposedly contain the image are unreachable, so I thought
it would be fun to recreate the image myself using matplotlib and the PIL.
The image is attached, I dont see a Templar knight or anyone holding a small

baby.

Darren

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The picture on the website is a chalk reproduction of the original, so
I doubt whether you would see anything there. Of course, to see
anything in the first place requires a healthy amount of imagination
:slight_smile:

Here is a copy of the original, with its mirror-image aligned and
super-imposed.

http://mentat.za.net/results/last_supper_mirror.jpg

Cheers
Stéfan

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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:03:30AM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

Curious, I gave it a try in photoshop. I think you have to line up the
doorways & windows to see the effect.
I see someone who looks kinda like they're holding a baby, but I don't know
what a Templar knight is supposed to look like, so I'm not sure if I saw that
or not.