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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

o put them evenly spaced in a straight line, then the scribe missed by about 1/2 mm both in the position and in spacing.

But the three "impossibly precise retraced strokes" that you objected to are neither evenly spaced nor in a straight line, either.  They are aligned on a curved line, with deviation smaller than the min stroke width.  Like those dots of f116v.

And note that the dots of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. were not done by a professional scribe hired to restore a faded manuscript.  

• In the "consensus" view, the "Latin" letters of f116v were casually penned by some later owner who had a severe dyslexia problem. 
  
• In my own current view, they were penned by someone desperately trying to recover the Voynichese writing that was wiped off together with the big water spill.  Without knowing the Voynichese alphabet.  Maybe by the same five-thumbed guy who spilled the water and wiped it off...
  

The point is that it the Rt1 Retracer would not need "super-human" ability to retrace the Rt0 strokes with no visible double-tracing.  Look at the luxury illuminated manuscripts of the period: professional scribes could routinely put down pen and brush strokes with that precision.

Or look at the glyphs that you accept as being retraced by the original Scribe himself...

All the best, --stolfi