Isamu an hour ago

If 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.

whatever1 3 hours ago

How much talent can fit in a person? This is how much.

  • nunodonato 2 hours ago

    indeed! The biography of Leonardo was an amazing read. Highly recommend it

nunodonato 2 hours ago

amazing! 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? :)

kragen 7 hours ago

This 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 are too low in resolution for good archival; you can't even read the writing.

  • trvz 7 hours ago

    Manipulate 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
    • WithinReason 2 hours ago

      Or 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" }
    • NoMoreNicksLeft 6 hours ago

      Any idea on how to best compile it to an ebook? Just stuffing the jpgs into a pdf rarely works well...

      • foofoo12 3 hours ago

        I 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 2 hours ago

          wouldnt this mess up the order? I think you are supposed to view it like R1, V2, R2, V2, etc

          • foofoo12 2 hours ago

            Yes, this was just an example. Using wildcard expansion will give you whatever order the your current shell seems fit. Bash does alphabetical order.

      • atoav 28 minutes ago

        Calibre comes with a ebook-convert command, that one might work

      • c0balt 5 hours ago

        I haven't that done this in some time, but templating some markdown code for pandoc and creating an ebup might be a viable avenue.

vim-guru 5 hours ago

Why are some of the pages upside down?

  • foofoo12 3 hours ago

    Da Vinci was showing off.

  • b34k3r 3 hours ago

    just rotate your monitor