Re: Re: VMs: Re: Inks and retouching

["Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Nick,  

======= At 2004-08-03, 15:08:00 you wrote: =======
>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).

There is a difference between hallucination and educated guess as you well know - and Beinecke scans are quite capable to provide higher discrimination needed. We can see that when we magnify the 
ordinary VM symbols on the same folio, their edges are still smooth and quite sharp, not fuzzy as we 
would otherwise expect. When the edges become fuzzy, we know it immediately so there is no 
guessing when. Still, as for denying the masking  intent: I can  distinctly  "hallucinate" that the length of blue dashes is shorter and shorter as  we go further  to right, exactly per diminishing heigth of brown scribbles underneath. Of course, the  painter might have tried to save the paint :-).

>
>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. :-)

You are of course joking, a circles can  only remind  us zero  and dashes no.1, squint as much as   
you can. Well, we just have to wait of other numbers appearing elsewhere and furthermore more    
"legible". Still, even if it is a series of numbers,  it will not help us to solve the riddle.
 
Jan
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