One of the keys to the encryption process is in identifying the location, angle and position of the line of planned intersection. Without understanding the process by which the line is determined a viewer cannot place the mirror in the proper position to create the encryption plane and hence construct the hidden images. Determining how to locate the intersection lines is a tedious process, one that took 4 years of trial and error to understand and apply.

It is his thinking outside the box and his inventive genius creating images outside the frame that is unique and that requires an understanding of the man’s thought processes in order to uncover.) The link is at: http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/Research.html

But from Vasari we have the observation that when the Last Supper was finished, “The texture of the very cloth on the table was rendered so cunningly that the linen itself could not look more realistic.” Today we can only imagine.

This is nonetheless an amazing degree of reproduction. I’d love to see some other Italian frescoes this way. The Raphaels in the Vatican or the Sistine Chapel murals by Michelangelo, Botticelli, et al.