Monday, March 4, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Cursive Handwriting book-4 pages
*Silent Reading: Little Town on the Prairie
*Art-
*field trip page
* national geographic book
*gym-hand clap, stair running,
*What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know-The Beat, the Western Musical Tradition, 
*Life of Fred-one chapter
*Khan Academy-multiplication, representing numbers

Justin:
*Outdoor Play
*Place Value-went over them together, doing it several different ways
*Sight Words


Timothy:
*Outdoor Play
*Guji  Guji read  by Robert Guillome
*Sight Words

Jacob:
*Outdoor Play
*Big and Little Letters
*Polar Bear Maze
*Tracing Lines
*We read A Children's Book About Snooping by Joy Berry

From Leanna:

From the author:

We think the "Mona Lisa" is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo which is why the painting is also known by the title, La Gioconda.

2 months ago by Steven Zucker

Would it be possible for curators to scan the Mona Lisa into a computer and use it to change the colors to what they originally were? If so, how sure could we be that the product of this process would capture what was there when the painting was first made?

2 months ago by Ari Mendelson

This is such an interesting idea and there has been work done in this area but then color is so very tricky. Think about just a few issues out of many more: What is the baseline color? In other words, What color are we looking for? Pigments change over even short periods of time. Would we assume we want the color Leonardo saw when the painting was still wet, he was certainly aware of the ways that color changes over time. Would this set of colors be those before or after vanish is applied? In… (more)

2 months ago by Steven Zucker

This has actually been attempted, I'm linking you to a study done in 2006: http://www.lumiere-technology.com/Pages/News/news3.htm