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Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus
- kragen 1y agoThis is beautiful! I am having some difficulty with the UI; is there a torrent? Images like https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/500/000R-1.jpg https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/500/000R-1.jpg are too low in resolution for good archival; you can't even read the writing.
- trvz 1y agoManipulate the URL for a higher resolution: https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-1.jpg You don't need to depend on others to create a torrent, as bestowed upon you was the power of wget! wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-{1..1119}.jpg wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-{1..1119}.jpg
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoAny idea on how to best compile it to an ebook? Just stuffing the jpgs into a pdf rarely works well...
- c0balt 1y agoI haven't that done this in some time, but templating some markdown code for pandoc and creating an ebup might be a viable avenue.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoOooh... I have even less luck with epub, when the pages are an image-per-page.
- kragen 1y agoMaybe what rarely works well for NoMoreNicksLeft is having a gigabyte of JPEGs in a single HTML chapter inside the epub? In that case you could do something like divide the files into 373 "chapters" of 6 pages each? One of the fragmentary editions I linked on the Archive uses the .cbr Comic Book Reader format; perhaps that is a better format than .epub for high-resolution scans of every page?
- eMPee584 1y agoocrmypdf (rocks!)
- foofoo12 1y agoI usually do what rarely doesn't work well for you, but it works decently for me. You get 1 page per image and the image isn't compressed or touched at all. apt install img2pdf img2pdf *.jpg -o leonardo-da-book.pdf
- nunodonato 1y agowouldnt this mess up the order? I think you are supposed to view it like R1, V2, R2, V2, etc
- atoav 1y agoCalibre comes with a ebook-convert command, that one might work
- ticulatedspline 1y agoEasy way would be to just drop them in a zip and label it .cbz. Most readers handle CBR/CBZ just fine.
- kragen 1y agoOh, is .cbz that simple? Does it use the file order of the zipfile members or some other order? (https://acbf.fandom.com/wiki/ACBF_Editor_-_Creating_Metadata https://acbf.fandom.com/wiki/ACBF_Editor_-_Creating_Metadata says it uses alphabetical order, which is the wrong order in this case.) It may be useful to use zip -Z store. JPEG data isn't going to get much benefit from another layer of LZ77.
- WithinReason 1y agoOr in PowerShell on Windows: 1..1119 | % { iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-$_.jpg" -OutFile "000R-$_.jpg" } 1..1119 | % { iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-$_.jpg" -OutFile "000V-$_.jpg" }
- embedding-shape 1y agoSome people around me swear PowerShell has better user experience than unix shells, but then I keep seeing examples like these. How on earth could people prefer this compared to `wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-{1..1119}.jpg https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-{1.....`?
- kragen 1y agoIn this case presumably the main difference is not PowerShell vs. bash but iwr vs. wget? Because I think this is roughly equally bad (untested): for page in {1..1119}; do iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-$page.jpg" -OutFile "000R-$page.jpg" iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-$page.jpg" -OutFile "000V-$page.jpg" done Also until recently bash didn't have {42..53} syntax. You had to use `seq`. There was an alternative name for `seq` in Unix Power Tools, `jot`, because it wasn't standard: https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch45_11.htm https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch45_11.htm. This section was by ORA author and sysadmin Linda Mui (https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/268 https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/268), but I don't know if she wrote `jot` or just popularized it.
- kragen 1y agoThanks! On my cellphone not even enough of the UI was working for me to discover those URLs. I suspect a certain amount of error recovery is in order for wgetting all 2238 images. 2000 seems to be the maximum resolution available, which is under 100dpi. A few of the images seem to have been uploaded to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Codex_Atlanticus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Codex_Atlanticus. There are a couple of scans of a 43-page Italian edition published by Ulrico Hoepli on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vinci_202303/ https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vin... https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vinci/ https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vin... but they seem to be of very poor quality. I'm done downloading now (with a sleep of 1 second between pages), and I have 1064125470 bytes of JPEG files, a very reasonably torrentable size. I'll see if I can put together a torrent and upload to the Archive and Commons...
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- vim-guru 1y agoWhy are some of the pages upside down?
- b34k3r 1y agojust rotate your monitor
- foofoo12 1y agoDa Vinci was showing off.
- embedding-shape 1y agoIt's a bit bananas, but probably just because he could. He also wrote his personal notes in "mirror writing": > The notes on Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man image are in mirror writing. Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his personal notes in mirror writing, only using standard writing if he intended his texts to be read by others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing
- whatever1 1y agoHow much talent can fit in a person? This is how much.
- nunodonato 1y agoindeed! The biography of Leonardo was an amazing read. Highly recommend it
- proee 1y agoCan you recommend the author?
- nunodonato 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(Isaacson_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(Isaacson_bo... The same author who wrote some other famous biographies. I know some people prefer other DaVinci's biographies. I didn't read others to be able to compare, but I really enjoyed this one.
- kragen 1y agoNitpick: "da Vinci" wasn't our homeboy's name. That just means "from Vinci". He was "Leonardo", like many other people, so we added "da Vinci" to clarify which Leonardo we meant, just like you might say, "Jessica from church came by," to clarify that you didn't mean Jessica the ex-girlfriend. Surnames weren't very widely used in Italy then. It's like "Jesus of Nazareth"; you wouldn't talk about "other OfNazareth's biographies". Ain't grammatical.
- cma 1y agoIt's fine. John Smith once meant the John who works as a blacksmith etc. Whatever the original meaning we now widely take da Vinci to be the last name if we don't speak Italian.
- nunodonato 1y agoamazing! The categorization is nice, but I would love to see some sort of "tag cloud" that would allow use to view more specific content. How long until someone creates a tool to RAG the hell out of this? :)
- Isamu 1y agoIf you get an opportunity to see them in person, it’s worth it because the fine details are that much more impressive up close. Every photo I’ve seen is not as good. Also the illustration is tinier than you would think.
- WillAdams 1y agoInteresting UI --- wants a full-screen mode and 2-up view and a way to remove all the chrome/UI.... An earlier example of this sort of thing was Bill Gates' purchase of the Codex Leceister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester which was then digitized and released on a CD-ROM by Corbis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(video_game) which was quite engaging, but sadly trapped in the technology of the time --- anyone know of an updated version of it?
- mzs 1y agohttps://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/ https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/
- MangoToupe 1y ago> We use it to express mild surprise that one person could use both their left and right hemispheres equally well. When did this myth become so perpetuated? It's infuriating. I blame university administration. I can't think of any other reason to so firmly distinguish different areas of thought.
- NaomiLehman 1y agoI'm training a model based on this /s
- felixbraun 1y agoExcellent work — reminds me of similar projects built with the same tech stack: – Coins: A journey through the Münzkabinett Berlin collection (one of the largest in the world). https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/coins/ https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/coins/ – Theodor Fontane Marginalia: A visualization of Fontane’s marginalia and notes in his personal library. https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/ff/ https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/ff/