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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

my views have progressed from "this could be retracing"  to "this is unlikely to be retracing" and then to "this is certainly not retracing"

Well, my views have evolved in the opposite direction, although not recently.  For quite some time I was convinced that certain details of the nymphs and other drawings were the work of a late "Boobs Retracer".  It was only recently that I noticed the many cases of "incomplete retracing" and other evidence (like many normal glyphs turned into weirdos, plumes traced the wrong way, etc.) and came to believe in the MRT, with an extensive restoration pass (Rt1) before the "Boobs Retracer" (Rt2).

By the way, do you believe that the details I have attributed to the Boobs Retracer (the right breasts and belly buttons, "scalloped showercaps", the "Habsburg crown", the "robot tentacle" etc.) are the work of the original Scribe too?  If so, do you think that they were drawn just after each folio was completed, or in a single pass after the whole section/book was completed?

And how about the isolated dark glyphs in the midst of lighter ones, like these from f40r:
   
Are they quirks of the "shape-shifting pen", or cases of backtracing by the original Scribe?  If the latter, aren't those examples of "inhuman" perfect retracing (as I defined it)?

All the best, --stolfi