11-03-2024, 11:45 AM
Following are some processed images of the Voynich MS that did not involve photoshop.
They also do not try to simulate the effect of wetting and rubbing the pages. In fact, I am unsure in several cases what it is that they are showing.
They are intended to be false-colour images of the parchment.
They were made using the following procedure.
Largely speaking, in colour scale terms, the parchment has a certain hue, with a varying lightness.
One can establish the R-G-B coordinates of the lightest parchment, and set up a new colour coordinates system with one axis pointing from (0,0,0) to this point and the other two axes perpendicular to this axis.
One can then compute the distance of each pixel from the 'parchment axis' as the root-sum-square of these two perpendicular components.
That distance is then colour-coded. If it is zero, we render it black, and increasing values become increasingly colourful. If it is above a certain limit, we assume that we are no longer looking at parchment, and we use grey for the colour code.
I will show links to the images of the biological section in the next post.
In some cases we can see parts of the other side of the page (just like we can see in the normal scans).
In some cases, we can see things that are on the opposing page.
Also, we can see shading from the illumination and blemishes and folds in the parchment.
Then, in some cases there seem to be things that cannot be easily explained by any of the above.
They also do not try to simulate the effect of wetting and rubbing the pages. In fact, I am unsure in several cases what it is that they are showing.
They are intended to be false-colour images of the parchment.
They were made using the following procedure.
Largely speaking, in colour scale terms, the parchment has a certain hue, with a varying lightness.
One can establish the R-G-B coordinates of the lightest parchment, and set up a new colour coordinates system with one axis pointing from (0,0,0) to this point and the other two axes perpendicular to this axis.
One can then compute the distance of each pixel from the 'parchment axis' as the root-sum-square of these two perpendicular components.
That distance is then colour-coded. If it is zero, we render it black, and increasing values become increasingly colourful. If it is above a certain limit, we assume that we are no longer looking at parchment, and we use grey for the colour code.
I will show links to the images of the biological section in the next post.
In some cases we can see parts of the other side of the page (just like we can see in the normal scans).
In some cases, we can see things that are on the opposing page.
Also, we can see shading from the illumination and blemishes and folds in the parchment.
Then, in some cases there seem to be things that cannot be easily explained by any of the above.