An Impressionist at the Paris Exposition
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A deep neural network based framework for restoring the damaged persian pottery via digital inpainting
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THE only original text of the Dîivân of Hâfiz which can be read with any degree of pleasure, or without impairing and imperiling even the strongest eyesight, is contained in three beautifully printed volumes edited by the late Professor Brockhaus. 1 The Persian Shaikh or Mullâ may prefer to peruse his favorite poets in Ta’lîk or Shikasta manuscripts, or in the lithographic facsimiles and typographic imitations of them issued at Shîrâz, Tabrîz, Calcutta, and Bûlak ; but for Occidental scholars such editions are a wanton waste of time and patience and paper, and, if not otherwise preventable, ought to be prohibited by the police. The pathway of the Orientalist is rough and thorny at best, and he finds in his legitimate pursuits inherent difficulties and unavoidable obstacles enough to surmount, without having unnecessary burdens imposed upon him by being compelled, as he plods along, to perform penitential works of […]
