The Da Vinci Code appealed to me and many others because it successfully mixes pieces of both art history and code breaking. The book captures in fiction the same fascination I had first cracking open Applied Cryptography.
A few months ago “Damon”:www.damonclinkscales.com completed a “companion to the book and film”:www.davincicc.com/, containing images and links to concepts organized by chapter. It uses the VitalBook digital book format, and is viewable in the software I helped write, “VitalSource Bookshelf”:www.vitalsource.com/. I’m working on some fun new stuff for Bookshelf at the moment that uses web services and “SSE”:msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/s… something I hope to post more about in the future.
In other Da Vinci news, story artist and animator Jim Capobianco has completed animation on his short film “Leonardo”:leoanimation.blogspot.com/. I saw a preview of this at “2d Expo two years ago”:www.manton.org/2004/07/c… and I can’t wait to see the finished product. Even in storyboards and rough pencil animation it was great.
