Re: VMs: Re: Inks and retouching

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

At 09:18 03/08/2004 -0500, Jan Hurych wrote:
> As for Nick's arguments: he apparently did also only the deconvolution.

To be clear, I also tried adjusting the contrast, brightness, and gamma: 
and I have also spent a long time in the past looking for non-Voynichese 
hidden throughout the VMs. Good though the sidfiles are, compression 
artefacts are rife at the high level of magnification you're looking at - 
and so it's very easy to hallucinate things that aren't quite there (I've 
done exactly that myself on f57r, seeing JPEG artefacts as hidden 
astrological symbols).

> True, there are strings
> or circles or dashes somewhere else, but that is just jumping to 
> conclusion based on sheer
> similarity. As for "no reason for something to be there" - that's exactly 
> what
> steganography is based on :-).

What I actually meant was that other strings of circles and dashes in 
pharma section look just as plausibly like numbers as this page (if you 
squint your eyes a bit) - except that in those other examples, we don't 
have a blue wash covering them to force us to use our imagination, so as to 
complete the gestalt. :-)

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


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