Garcia-Cotte: Uncle's 12-color camera scanned Mona Lisa and revealed Da Vinci's underdrawing
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Hugo Garcia-Cotte, CEO of anti-counterfeiting startup Cypheme, explains how his family of entrepreneurs inspired him, citing his uncle Pascal Cotte's pioneering multispectral camera used to analyze art at the Louvre.
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“One of my uncles invented a camera that can analyze paintings in 12 colors instead of three. So a normal camera just take three colors, RGB, and then save that. He invented a camera that can scan in 12 colors, and he struggled for years to sell it, and he didn't manage to sell it, and until now, financially, he's struggling, but The things he's achieved with this are insane. For example, he had the chance to scan Mona Lisa, like the Louvre took Mona Lisa off for a day for him to scan. And with his camera, he's managed to discover loads of things. Nobody knew about Mona Lisa. Like, for example, he discovered that Da Vinci, when he drew Mona Lisa, he first drew, with a pencil, Mona Lisa on, on the wood. This is something nobody knew before, and he discovered it.”
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