Multispectral camera and radiative transfer equation used to depict Leonardo's sfumato in Mona Lisa

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2146-2154

  Elias, Mady ^a,b   Cotte, Pascal ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^c Lumiere Technology   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

AUXILIARY FUNCTION METHODS; BASE LAYERS; COLOR SATURATION; MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; UPPER LAYER; VIRTUAL REMOVAL;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 51349140595     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002146     Document Type: Article

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