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Ludwig Plutonium (Ludwig.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu) wrote:


> The highest resolution photograph of a beautiful female face 
> excels the Mona Lisa.

Not true. 

The Mona Lisa has an indefinable quality which has little to do with 
high resolution photography, mathematical definition, or the beauty 
of a female face.  

Failure, or a lack of ability, to recognise the intangible aspects 
of The Mona Lisa can only lead to invalid assumptions in the 
development of any proposition " that mathematics will increasingly 
overtake art ".  

Even in the following very primitive ascii rendition of Mona Lisa, 
the intangible quality is present. There is a hint of it in inverse 
video mode, but it becomes evident when printed in Bold Pica Font on 
a dot matrix printer. The print needs to be viewed from a distance 
of 1 metre or more.  


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