Re: RE: VMs: Re: Inks and retouching

["Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jon,  

the  picture in your link is quite amazing and the separation is great! Now here is an example where the 
text was hidden and we may wonder why: was it  oversight or negligence of the "masker"? Of course 
the text there was quite visible, so first possibility is nil and the second one is rather improbable. There 
is however one good reason for additional coloring iátself - it was meant to make the hiding of 
something even better,  making  it more confusing.  So there was no danger in covering unimprotant 
parts as well, but we can see where the masking was done haphazard and where it was carefully hiding 
something, which may  have been otherwise suspected and recognized. As for plants, we already 
suspect that those are unreal, at least in herbal sense :-).
                                                                                                                    
Either way,  new advances bring new questions -  isn't the VM the source of everlasting  inspiration? 
That's why  I love it so much,

Jan


======= At 2004-08-03, 15:58:00 you wrote: =======

>Well, I have to say I remain unconvinced! I think the blue paint is
>partially opaque so that it covers the brown ink rather than absorbing light
>reflected by it - this means that when the blue is applied thickly there is
>no information left for us to determine whether or not there was any brown
>beneath it.
>
>f102v1 definitely does contain some hidden text though:
>http://www.geocities.com/jgroveuk/voynich/Column3.jpg
>
>Some of the decoration on the columns is again suggestive of tiny text, but
>I still feel it is merely decoration. I'd like to be proved wrong though!
>
>Cheers,
>Jon.



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