13-01-2017, 05:11 PM
Afflicted by the dreaded daemon meridianus I pulled my copy of the Yale Voynich book off the shelves and checked it. The beast appears in quite good resolution there. So I hauled out my macro lens and took some photos.
I still can't work out what's going on with that tail. I zoomed in as much as I could before it physically pixelated in front of me (a good example this of why higher resolution photos aren't necessarily a good thing) and got this:
I popped it into the Gimp, blew it up and traced the outlines as best I could. I then deleted the background and got this traced image:
Whatever that end limb is supposed to be, the artist hasn't connected the paw onto it. Note the little curve on the right hand side of the paw - this is an extension of the limb.
My guess is still that this is a four legged beast with a tail, and the artist screwed it up by drawing it too close to the "ground" (green smudge) and panicked.
I still can't work out what's going on with that tail. I zoomed in as much as I could before it physically pixelated in front of me (a good example this of why higher resolution photos aren't necessarily a good thing) and got this:
I popped it into the Gimp, blew it up and traced the outlines as best I could. I then deleted the background and got this traced image:
Whatever that end limb is supposed to be, the artist hasn't connected the paw onto it. Note the little curve on the right hand side of the paw - this is an extension of the limb.
My guess is still that this is a four legged beast with a tail, and the artist screwed it up by drawing it too close to the "ground" (green smudge) and panicked.