Fun Friday Resources

Today we have two visual resources from which we can STEAL FROM THE BEST, and I found both of them via Open Culture.

The first is amazing and impressive, but not as useful: Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus has been digitized and put online. It’s over 1,000 pages of notes and drawings, and the website is pretty spectacular. For English, start scrolling down [side note: Why do designers think I want to look at a useless screen and have to scroll down for the important stuff???] and click on the EN button at the bottom right. Also, click on the How to Read link at the top for a thorough explanation.

Unfortunately, it appears that the effort is copyrighted; none of the pages are directly downloadable. (The British Library’s Codex Arundel is a little friendlier in this regard.)

The question here is why my labyrinth is not this green. I should stop writing and go deal with that. [photo by --e]

Our second resource is completely copyright free: Creative Commons’ new image search engine. It’s completely self-explanatory and way cool. It searches multiple image sites for its results, so it’s kind of a one-stop shop for images. (You will want to review the types of CC licenses.)

Cats.

Minotaur.

Pythagorean theorem, although those results are a little all over the place.

Labyrinth.