Today, Hudson and I started discussing how we will update MISHA. Next week , we are going to image an actual historical document! However, the document is too big for MISHA to image it's entirety, so we must make some changes so we are able to move the document around so MISHA can image one piece at a time. The document is a palimpsest. Palimpsests are pieces of parchment paper from around the 13th century that had one ink writing scraped off in order to recycle the parchment and allow for new writings to be scripted there. Many of today's famous ancient writings, such as the manuscripts from Archimedes, were palimpsests. We can image the parchment, and using ENVI and image-processing, reveal what was once written on the Parchment.
There are issues that we now must work on, to ensure that by next week Misha is ready to image its first historical document! Hopefully without too much error...
A page of the Archenemies Palimpsest
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