14-05-2019, 07:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-05-2019, 07:37 AM by Mark Knowles.)
(13-05-2019, 11:12 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Could it be that, when you write "is", you mean: "looks like"?
I used the word "is" rather than "looks like" as it implies a much greater degree of certainty. If I carefully drew a triangle on a piece of paper then you should be able to say for all practical purposes not that it merely "look like" a triangle, but that it "is" a triangle. Now technically it would not be a triangle as no human has ever drawn a perfect straight line, but for all meaningful practical purposes it would be.
There are 100s of gallows characters with left hand top loops, so there are hundreds of potential triangles. On an aggregate basis we should be able to say on the basis of image recognition techniques that we have triangles. I can provide a more specific methodology to achieve this. In a sense I am trying to move this question from the realms of a Voynich research question to the more certain realms of image recognition problems. Similarly I would imagine that the visual identification of other Voynich characters could be put on a more scientific basis.
In fact it is conceivable that other visual identification of drawings in the Voynich could be treated as image recognition problems.