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  1. Oct 2023
    1. 3D scans of runestones enable researchers to gain a close-up view of traces of the carving process. This means they can tell the carving technique of the different rune stones apart. Every experienced stonemason holds his chisel at a certain angle and strikes the hammer with a specific force: this is visible in the angle of the traces of the carving and the distance between them. The motor function developed in such work is individual.

      Just as the idea of "hand" in morse code or handwriting or typewriting analysis differentiates operators, the same sort of identification process can be done for stonemasons, carvers, and inscribers.

  2. Jan 2023
  3. Nov 2022
    1. Work in Progress¶ The HandwritingRecognition plugin uses cloud-based handwriting recogntion to recognize handwritten text from a selection or page layer in a user-specified language.

      This HandwritingRecognition plugin is a work-in-progress, but extremely exciting. They ran into some issues using Google's API; broke strokes into batches of 150 which would make reassembling more than a couple sentences a nontrivial problem.

  4. Nov 2021
    1. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/04/opinion/20090908_opart.html?_r=0

      We recognize letters in reading much better by reading the top of letters rather than by reading the bottom of letters.

      As a result of this, closing the tops of letters properly is important in writing.

      An alternate method of holding one's writing instrument between fore-finter and middle finer with the thumb near the tip can alleviate forearm, wrist, and thumb pain.

  5. Mar 2020