The Tepenecz f1r signature…
Back in February 2005, I decided to use my m4d image-processing 5k1llz to try to see how much of the erased owner’s signature at the bottom of f1r (the very first page) of the Voynich Manuscript I could reasonably reconstruct.
The reason the signature is so invisible is because some (probably early 17th century) owner physically scrubbed that part of the page really, really clean, to the point that there’s basically no ink there, nada, zilch. All that remains is no more than a subtle half-shadow, a ghostly echo that you have to enhance over and over and over to snatch even a vague glimpse. Well, that’s what I did four years ago – and here’s what ultimately came out of the process:-
By a twist of fate, I discovered this week just how correct my interpretation of the signature is (it’s actually surprisingly close). But that’s actually someone else’s story, which I hope to blog about at a later date…
January 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Cool work, but did you have to leave us hanging? Ugh.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Hi there,
The short explanation is that people tell me a lot of confidential cipher-related stuff – perhaps it’s the nature of ciphers for people to want to be furtive / clandestine. Whatever the precise logic, rest assured that all these things will indeed come into the light, & sooner rather than later.
Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….
January 9th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hi Nick,
Sorry for posting this in your blog entry but I could not find any page on your website from which I could have contacted you.
I was able to solve the archive problem. The problem is because of the “Robots Meta” plugin. Go to “Robots Meta” Setting page from your Admin/Settings Panel. Scroll down to “Archive Setting” and uncheck the option “Redirect search results pages when referrer is external”. Better uncheck all the options under “Archive Setting”.
Let me know if that worked for you or not.
January 9th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Hi Kushal,
Thanks for that tip – yes, it worked perfectly! To “disable” the archive page, I thought that Robots Meta would simply have added noindex to its meta tags – I never imagined for a moment that it might silently redirect archive requests to the homepage!
Glad to see it working on your site as well!
Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….