VMs: RE: Hi

[Greg Stachowski <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose that this is a good moment to mention out that (following a
discussion with Rene) I'm assembling a searcheable on-line archive of the
available VMS images. Hopefully this will deal with the broken-link
problem, as well as facilitating searching for particular images. I
anticipate that it will be fully ready by about October (unfortunately I
have other work which is more urgent :) If things go well I will make it
available earlier, before all of the images are in place, as soon as the
scripts etc. are fully debugged.

The f87v two part high-resolution image is from the Beinecke, as part of
a project by IBM demonstrating the capabilities of their equipment for
creating digital archives of documents.  If I recall, it came up in a
discussion about funding a scan of the VMS. An article about the project
is at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july97/vatican/07gladney.html

[pause while Greg searches his mail archives]

Ah, here it is. Posted by Stolfi, 8 July 2002. I quote:

--begin quote--
It is not really a "micrograph", but here are some high-resolution
images of f87v that Beinecke provided us, a couple of years ago, as a
test of what their in-house scanner was capable of delivering(*).

  http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/BeineckeScanSample-f87v-top.jpg
  http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/BeineckeScanSample-f87v-bot.jpg

Unlike most images in their gallery, which were derived from color
photo negatives, these samples were digitised directly from the
manuscript, with a special IBM camera-like book scanner. At ~450
pixels per inch, these may well be the highest-resolution color images
ever made of the VMS.
--end quote--

Oddly, they're not linked from the Beinecke Digital Images page. Stolfi's
page doesn't seem to be responding at the moment, but that may be my own
local problem. I have the images and will link them into the archive
shortly.

Regards,

Greg
-------------------------------------o--------------=-
greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx            __///,_    ==
           \              \   \    o  / 'QOOO0&_ ==
           /              /   |      / 0  )OOO0@#==
          \|              | / /      \__ ,dO0@9" ===
      ....||..         ...\ | \..       `\\`       ==