Textual relationship between matching Herbal and Pharma illustrations

[Karlov]

I built and ran a computerised VLM analysis that took all of the plants in both sections, extracted them as roots, plants, flowers, and then applied visual processing to compare them, adjusting for size and morphology, and the answer at the end of it was negative. Now that may tell you more about the state of computer vision right now, but beyond the ones you mentioned which have been human eyeballed, the correlations just don't appear to be there. I've also run a lot of textual comparators between the section, and there is no statistically significant linguistic overlap or even partial overlap that would indicate a link between words and drawings..  if you can find a different approach, great.. but I'm not the first and certainly won't be the last to find out there's no easy crib..

I understand. Thanks for the answer anyway. I'm not asking because I believe I can come up with a new way to solve this problem. Rather, I realize I'm not competent enough to understand why exactly this isn't working, and I haven't even found any mention of such attempts, so I'm asking.