News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ancient public library discovered in Germany by singularity2001 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @03:09AM (#17660278)
The linked methods don't look promising (yet) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6895
Re:Ancient public library discovered in Germany by comex on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @03:39AM (#17660371)
See also

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09883

which is a newer paper using the same imaging method (X-ray phase-contrast tomography) plus an algorithm to separate the rolled-up layers from the 3D scan data. Results are better, though still far from being able to decode substantial portions of text.

edit: I also found an article in Smithsonian Magazine from just last month, about someone else's even more recent attempts:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-s...