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NRC's Award-winning 3D work on the Mona Lisa

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The montage that has been awarded second prize in the Informational Graphics category in the Scientific and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006 - Click on the image to view a larger size
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NRC-IIT’s Visual Information Technology Group is in the news again, this time for their work on the Mona Lisa. The (US) National Science Foundation has awarded members of VIT and the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF) second prize in the Informational Graphics category in the Scientific and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006. The award is for a montage produced by VIT that depicts the information obtained by using scientific imaging technologies to analyze Leonardo da Vinci's painting. For more information and to see images, please go to the following links:

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