[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

From my point of view it does look a bit as if you have theoreticized yourself into a corner, but who knows, maybe it's the right corner after all.

Well, so far I don't seem to have convinced anyone... but, on the other hand, I have not seem plausible explanations for many of the details that I have pointed out in previous posts.  Just blanket statements "look like normal ink weight variations".  So I am still unmoved.

Otherwise I find it very implausible that three different people would spend so much effort with extreme precision and yet achieve somewhat visually poor result of very uneven ink density.

Only the first retracing round required high effort and extreme precision -- and it was so good and extensive that most people still cannot see it.  That restoration left out only parts that were so faded that the Retracer himself did not see them, parts that could not be easily retraced (like the tips of plumes and tails), and parts that were still acceptably clear.  But a couple centuries later the latter had faded further, and the contrast with retraced parts became much more pronounced.

later retracing rounds were much more limited and clearly did not care much about fidelity and quality.  

All the best, --jorge