Image: A screen from The Codex Arundel

Turning the pages of Codex Arundel becomes a reality.
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Image: A screen from The Codex Arundel

Manipulate the book in a 3D space.
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Header: Case Studies

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel

Product: Turning the Pages™ 2.0
Client: The British Library
Year: 2007

Image: Codex Arundel front cover
Currently Turning the Pages™ 2.0 is only available to PC users with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista. http://www.bl.uk/ttp2/ttp1.html

For the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft invited us to develop a whole new version of Turning the Pages™, using some of the new 3D technologies in the operating system. The result is an amazing three-dimensional experience that also includes an array of new tools such as personal note-taking. The application is being used to showcase the reunification of two Leonardo da Vinci codices - Bill Gates Codex Leicester and the British Library's Codex Arundel. This will open up opportunities for scholars in a way never before possible.

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Stars of Sciences pages were built to exactly mimic the real book.
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Even the gold leaf catches the light.
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Persian 'Stars of Sciences'

Product: Turning the Pages™ VirtualBook
Client: The Wellcome Collection
Year: 2006

Image: Persian front cover
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ttp.html

Using VirtualBook, we developed a touchscreen kiosk version of Stars of Sciences, an important 17th century Indian manuscript. We filmed the curator turning the pages, modelled the book in 3D to millimetre accuracy and then build an application that gets as close as is possible to the experience of engaging with the actual book. The application is being relocated as a centrepiece of the new Wellcome Library in London in June 2007.

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Curators notes are available throughout the book.
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A magnifier allows users to see even the details.
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The Sherborne Missal

Product: Turning the Pages™ 3D
Client: The British Library
Year: 2004

Image: Sherborne front cover
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

The Sherborne Missal was one of the first British Library books to be launched using TTP3D, the online cross-platform version of Turning the Pages. Since launch this version has been a huge success and on a busy month over 100,000 people will use the application and experience some of the worlds greatest books online.