History comes back to life with these amazing transformation of color added to famous historical moments. This technique uses state-of-the-art algorithems that analyze the shading in these famous photos as well as hue to deduct, as close as possible, the exact colors existing in the original scene. Enjoy these moments of history brought into the present: |
Hindenburg Disaster |
1937Japanese Archers, circa 1860 |
View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864 |
Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939 |
British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939 |
Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880 |
Abraham Lincoln, 1865 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 |
Anne Frank, 1942 |
Nicola Tesla |
Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953 |
Walt Whitman, 1887 |
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933 |
Testing the Hydrogen Bomb |
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