Tendrilfrid Voynich?

[Koen G]

There was a serious proposal some years ago suggesting that the scribe had manipulated words in one of the text only pages into the likeness of his face.
A medieval ASCII art self portrait is how it was described

Haha! Well, points for originality

This reminded me more of the vase illusion, where you can see a shape in the negative space. I wonder if there are precedents for such "illusions" in older art...


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Here you can either see a map of Idaho in the white, or an unintended face in the brown area.
If you look again at my edit of the Voynich face though, you'll see that it's much "cleaner", which is the reason why I won't just dismiss this as a coincidence just yet.