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9 articles · 02 Nov 2026, 08:00 UTC — 03 Nov 2026, 08:00 UTC

Papyrology desk · 2026-11-03

A second PHerc. 306B area opens for collaborative reading

Following the PHerc. 306B prize announcement, a separate contributor shared a flattened mesh, traced lines, ink images and CT images for another area of that scroll. The post describes roughly nineteen square…

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Ink desk · 2026-11-03

Update: PHerc. 1447 candidate gains model-agreement and background checks

The signal-versus-noise discussion now includes quantitative checks on a C-shaped candidate in PHerc. 1447 segment 20250702235910. A contributor reports agreement between v8-in, trained without this scroll, and two ink_9um seeds, alongside seven…

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Segmentation desk · 2026-11-03

Winding-field work adds an interim OBJ-to-tifxyz conversion route

A request to import winding-field OBJ output into VC3D drew a concrete integration update: the developer said native tifxyz output was in progress and that a conversion script had been sent as…

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Ink desk · 2026-11-03

Raw-CT scan-volume model moves into a full Paris 4 training run

A contributor reported completing a revised three-dimensional scan-volume architecture that takes raw CT with global z-score normalization, rather than the altered inputs used by an earlier version. The post says tutorial-set training…

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