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friday 20 december 2024
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Is Gioconda happy?
A working team from the University of Amsterdam has analyzed the mood of the Da Vinci model through a special software capable of recognizing facial traits and gestures and relating them to emotions. Result: Mona Lisa is happy in 83%, afflicted in 9%, scared in 6% and angry in 2%. However, no unexpected signs have been found. In this way, they wanted to respond to the enigma that hides Mona Lisa's smile through new technologies. However, another question has remained unanswered: What are these kinds of studies for?
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