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

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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is my attempt at it.  Note that I m 75, with two cataract operations (meaning I can't focus closer than ~50 cm) and I haven't done any significant pen artwork by hand in more than 20 years.  As you can see, I am getting better at it even with a little practice.  Is that supernatural enough? 

[PS you may need to download the file (~20 MB); my browser can't play that link directly for some reason]

All the best, --stolfi

You are covering thin pencil strokes with wide pen or liner strokes. Assuming mm grid, the pencil strokes are ~0.25 and the pen strokes are ~0.4. This is not at all what the imaginary retracer of the Voynich manuscript would do. She or he would touch up existing stokes in a way to produce a seamless shape transition from pen to pencil. Can you draw a character that is half pen half pencil but at the magnification 4x higher than this video you would only be able to tell where the pen ends and the pencil starts by a change in color, not in shape.