[verditelabs]

I am not a papyrologist or a classicist, rather I'm a computer scientist, so my expertise is unfortunately not in _what_ the scrolls say, rather how we get there. That being said I think and hope that there will be a trove of things that has no known provenance at all, completely lost works that elude the public memory.

[arikrahman]

Well what were your first thoughts when you decoded the script, besides the obvious Eureka, after making some sense of the texts?

[verditelabs]

Other members that were on the team before me had already proved it out before I came along so I knew it was possible. The cool thing for me though was specifically doing some physicically based rendering techniques. How well these work varies greatly, but on a few segments in one scroll they work extremely well. I whipped up some simple code to composite layers, did up a render, and without any ML at all was looking at multiple rows of text that no one had read for 2000 years. That was neat.

[tremon]

Probably something along the lines of "finally, now it looks like a coherent piece of text. I wonder what it says".

[readthenotes1]

Your response reminds me of Nigel Richards :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards

Congratulations, and thank-you!