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Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci

53 points by nill0 9mo ago

tianqi 8mo ago
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 8mo ago
  Interestingly, Leonardo may have experimented with binocular vs. monocular perspective for at least one alternative version of his _Mona Lisa_: https://monalisa.org/2013/12/15/genius-leonardo-da-vinci-perspective/ 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/mirapaul/1226mirapaul.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/mi...
mock-possum 8mo ago
Cool art, awful mobile experience
adaml_623 8mo ago
I can't see who drew them?
- formerly_proven 8mo ago
  Credited as the photographer on the record Background: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/legacy/pdfs/200905/gallery.pdf https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/legacy/...
  - adaml_623 8mo ago
    Thank you. Excellent link you've shared. I noted the photographer credit but should have just googled
mikhailfranco 8mo ago
Maybe they're original, found buried in some obscure monastery in the mountains of Umbria. Perhaps Leonardo invented the LHC!
temporallobe 8mo ago
Some of the drawings feature what appears to be flying spiders and other similar shapes. Is this supposed to represent particle collisions?
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amadio 8mo 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: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SketchUpCMS https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SketchUpCMS
- amadio 8mo ago
  Related article: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/2/022032 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/2/022032

53 points by nill0 9mo ago

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 8mo ago
Interestingly, Leonardo may have experimented with binocular vs. monocular perspective for at least one alternative version of his _Mona Lisa_: https://monalisa.org/2013/12/15/genius-leonardo-da-vinci-perspective/ 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/mirapaul/1226mirapaul.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/mi...

mock-possum 8mo ago

Cool art, awful mobile experience

adaml_623 8mo ago

I can't see who drew them?

formerly_proven 8mo ago
Credited as the photographer on the record Background: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/legacy/pdfs/200905/gallery.pdf https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/legacy/...
- adaml_623 8mo ago
  Thank you. Excellent link you've shared. I noted the photographer credit but should have just googled

mikhailfranco 8mo ago

Maybe they're original, found buried in some obscure monastery in the mountains of Umbria. Perhaps Leonardo invented the LHC!

temporallobe 8mo ago

Some of the drawings feature what appears to be flying spiders and other similar shapes. Is this supposed to represent particle collisions?

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amadio 8mo 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: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SketchUpCMS https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SketchUpCMS

amadio 8mo ago
Related article: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/2/022032 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/2/022032