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the v&a london, home to 145 galleries of works from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here — to see how our brains react to what we're seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it's time for a way of quantifying that. so we're just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be used as a meditation device, has been repurposed to translate brain activity into a real tim...

from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here — to see how our brains react to what we're seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it's time for a way of quantifying that. so we're just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be used as a meditation device, has been repurposed to translate brain activity into a real time 3d visualisation. and this has four eeg senso...

Underneath the veils, we had to use x—ray. everything is very cloudy looking, but you can definitely see the anatomy of her legs. yeah. you can also see her belly button that, at the start of our project, was not visible. the team also used the generative fill a! tool in photoshop beta to help reconstruct textures and colours on some of the areas covered by veils. it was able to take the information from all of the diagnostics and apply paint where it needed to be applied and create the image, but you have to use it wisely. you wouldn't want it to get too creative. revealing the original nud...

Of the body, but they couldn't read the very, very thick applications of oil paint, which the veils consist of. to go and see what is underneath the veils, we had to use x—ray. everything is very cloudy looking, but you can definitely see the anatomy of her legs. yeah. you can also see her belly button that, at the start of our project, was not visible. the team also used the generative fill a! tool in photoshop beta to help reconstruct textures and colours on some of the areas covered by veils. it was able to take the information from all of the diagnostics and apply paint where it needed t...

Revealing the original nude image wasn't the only aim of the restoration. two tiny micro samples were taken from the painting so that the restorers could find out what pigments artemisia used and where exactly they�* re located. this enabled the restorers to choose the right materials and methods to use in the restoration. the samples were analysed under a powerful microscope, using a technique called ftir spectroscopy. this is one of the samples that the restorer had taken from the painting. it's less than half a millimetre. it's very, very tiny. the microscope reads the sample by firing ra...