Using over 7,500 lines of code , hacker / artistJay Salvatcreated this surprisinglydetailed reproduction of da Vinci ’s Mona Lisawith nothing but cascading style sheets . It ’s about as modern as modern artistic production can get .
There are no detail on just how he went about recreating the illustrious opus , but looking at the code there are n’t any clever trick or shortcuts used here . The CSS just specifies the situation and colour of chiliad and thousands of oversized picture element . wordy , for sure , but it ’s not like daVinci whipped up the original in an afternoon either .
Update : The CSS image was make using a custom PHP class Jay write that ’s available fordownload here .

[ Jay SalvatviaLaughingSquidviaHacker News ]
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