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Originally Posted by steve B
I'll be giving that a good read!
If you were local, I'd like to get together for a long talk, I've read a few cognitive articles, and run into some really interesting firsthand examples of how the identical thing is perceived or not by different people.
I think the high resolution scans are the key, At decent magnification the actual fiber structure of the cardboard can be seen, and that's as good as a fingerprint, maybe even a bit better. That would be a more advanced version of what the blowout guy does in finding unique markers on the reverse, which are mostly darker fibers.
I think a computer could spot stuff like that very easily, and that might be one path to knowing if a card had been seen before and what it looked like then.
The downside is the massive database required. Although I have talked about it with my wife who is in software and she didn't see that as a problem, but did see developing the database as a really major task.
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Yes, I thought of you. I know I can authenticate cards from microscoic images that are sent to me via email.
Also,these scans will be UV to IR, so it will show advanced stuff.
But I'll be doing my testing to see how it works. I know the old saying, don't count the hourse before the card before the chickens have hatched.
Really, the scanning is examining the cards under different forms of light, but with the simultaneous ability to take a digital photograph for documentation.