Unfolding animation (VIDEO)

Queen Mary University of London

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Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how "virtual unfolding" was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from 17th-century Europe without physically opening them.

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Courtesy of the Unlocking History Research Group archive.

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