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I love the video from 2009! Any thought on making an update?


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Voynich Manuscript Rosettes in 3D

Oct 15, 2009

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Thanks, pj! I'm not sure if I will or not. I and others have thought of some changes and modifications to the model since I made it. René thought I ought to include the "canopy" over the towers. I had thought the slanting tubes should really be upright... I've come to think that this was probably the artists' original intention, and that they only (might have) shown them tilted so that they're form would be apparent from the top-down view used. I don't know of course.

BTW, the producers of the 2020/21 Travel Channel Documentary on the Voynich (which I am in) asked if they could use these models in the presentation. So I sent them the original hi-res renderings, and you can see them there. And FYI, I made a page of other 3D renderings, both mine and those of others... including the wonderful sculptures of Cary Rapaport:

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I think 3D renderings are a great tool to see things that no longer exist in person, to help get an idea of what the original artist may have envisioned.

Thanks again, Rich.

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When I look at people's estimates, I also have to ask myself questions.
Example:
When a new fashion emerges in Italy (Milan), it may take 10 or 20 years for it to be captured in pictures.
It might take 20 or 30 years for this fashion to reach the north, and another 10 or 20 years for it to be captured in pictures there too.
If one person is more familiar with Italy and the other with northern Europe, I would consider both estimates to be reasonable.
After all, it's not a car model where I know exactly whether it was built in '72, '86 or '94, and the drawings are anything but accurate. And the fashion change was certainly not every spring.

I agree, Aga.