Re: VMs: Sideways text? Bleedthrough? Erased image?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Larry, Rene,

At 23:31 31/08/2003 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> --- Larry Roux <LRoux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is what I see:
> >
> > 1) there is a heck of lot of "noise" on this page.
> > While I have noted several characters (see
> > http://web.syr.edu/~lroux/f72v3red.jpg)
>
> Assuming that the scan was made on a flatbed
> scanner, perhaps what we're seeing is 'dirt'
> on the scanner glass plate (ink residue from
> earlier scans perhaps?)

It reminds me more of glyphs formed from joining up constellations in the 
sky. :-o

Sorry, Larry, unless you're looking at a quite different scan from me, I 
think you're projecting onto random dots here - like Mark Romanek's 1985 
film "Static" (with Amanda Plummer). Currently, the only two parts of that 
page that I can see as possibly having a small amount of text are (a) the 
short vertical line that appears to go over the "augft", and (b) the short 
vertical line to the right of the "6 o'clock" nymph on the outer circle.

Even so, both of these are (a) tiny, (b) hard to make out, (c) quite 
possibly aligned with creases in the vellum. Sure, there's a kind of 
postmodern dialectic to be had between signal and noise - but it's pretty 
clear to me that almost all of this is just noise. :-(

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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