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Algorithm Virtually Unfolds a Historical Letter without Unsealing It


Scientific American
In the centuries before envelopes, “letterlocking” secured a message’s information
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Computer-generated unfolding animation of a sealed letter from 17th-century Europe. The physical letter itself has never been opened. Credit: Unlocking History Research Group
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In 1697 a legal professional in the French city of Lille wrote to his cousin in the Netherlands to request a relative’s death certificate, possibly in order to finalize an inheritance. He folded and sealed his mundane missive so it would hold together without an envelope and mailed it off to the Hague. For some reason, it never reached its recipient and remains sealed today. Yet a team of historians and scientists have still read it thanks to high-resolution imaging and a “virtual unfolding” algorithm. ....

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