This document discusses the concept of a "Digital Renaissance" where data and images can be analyzed and measured to gain insights and intelligence, just as occurred during the original Renaissance period through studying antiquity, nature, the arts and sciences. It provides examples of prominent Renaissance figures like da Vinci and Fibonacci who made discoveries through visualizing and measuring, and describes how a "Smart Knowledge Engine" can perform similar functions in a digital context by generating true color 3D images, measuring digital color brightness, and producing digital 3D metrics to analyze and forecast changes over time. The goal is to create a "Smart Knowledge" space where multi-dimensional data, images, and graphs can be layered and structured numerical data can be precisely measured.

1. Renaissance Woman
The Art of Visualising and the Science of Measuring
in the Intelligence of a Smart Knowledge Engine
Sabine K McNeill
www.SmartKnowledge.space
© Copyright Sabine K McNeill 1996 - 2017

2. Why Renaissance [14th – 17th Century]?
 Renaissance
 Rebirth of
Humanism
in Greece
 Protagoras
 “Man is
the Measure
of all Things”
The School of Athens by Raphael [1483-1520]

3. ‘Digital Renaissance’:
Enlightenment through Data
 Humanism
 Art
 Science
 Music
 Religion
 Self-awareness
 Classical antiquity
 Study and imitate nature
 Generic Software Methods
 Re-Visualising Images
 Layering Multi-Dimensional Data
 Forecasting Time Series
 Structured Numerical Data
 Images
 Graphs, Diagrams
 Verbal Data
 Measuring Units
The Creation of
Adam – Michelangelo
[1475 – 1564]

4. Giordano Bruno [1548 – 1600]
“There is no Time,
there is only Movement.
For if there was no Movement,
there would be no Time.”
“In this infinite space is placed our universe -
whether by chance, by necessity or by
providence – I do not consider here.”

5. “Renaissance Man”
Leonardo da Vinci [1452 – 1519]
Mona Lisa as a movable object
in True Colour 3D
opening her eyes as you tilt her

6. Leonardo Fibonacci [1175 – 1250]

7. Pythagoras of Samos [ca 570 BC]

8. Alexander von Humboldt [1769 – 1859]
“Every discovery
opens up the imagination further,
stimulating more discovery:
it enlarges the sphere of ideas,
excites a taste for investigation,
while the creation of
new instruments of observation
increases the intelligence.”
Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity,
London 1994

9. 1749 – 1832

10. René Descartes [1596 – 1650]
3 Dimensions are defined by
orthogonal Axes at 900 Angles.

11. SI Units: International System of Units [1960]
kg kilogram: 3D
m meter: 1D
s second: 4D
cd candela: luminous intensity
K Kelvin: thermodynamic temperature
A Ampere: electric current
mol mole: amount of substance
Geo-metric
Dimensions
Physical
Qualities
Digital Colour Brightness

12. NUMBERS: where Physics meets Metrology
Physical Constants of Nature
Digital Colour Brightness:
the numerical representation
of Light and Colour –
digitised by technologies

13. True Colour 3D: Quantifications of Light and Colour

14. Digital 3D Metrics = Measuring Qualities
of Objects and Phenomena in Digital Images

15. Measuring Changes over Time
by Comparing Digital Colour Brightness

16. Cassiopeia C – a constellation in the
Northern Sky – named after a Greek queen

17. Johannes Kepler [1571 – 1630]

18. Smart Knowledge – a ‘Digital Renaissance’
 The Space where Data and Images
become Insights and Intelligence:
 www.smartknowledge.space
 The Engine that creates
 True Colour 3D with
 Pixel Accuracy and
 Digital Colour Brightness as digital yardstick
 for Smart Monitoring to automate image
analysis and produce
 Digital 3D Metrics:
 www.smart-knowledge-portals.uk