Image decomposition

Post the full resolution image.

Otsu's.

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>>8739005
This is the exact picture from 1996

You could make a very simple curves adjustment in photoshop that shows only faint lines and maps dark lines to white. It woudl look something like
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>>8739013
Already tried that. It doesn't look desireable.

Scan over subregions and apply local thresholds based on the background values?

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>>8739026
meh

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I think you will need to do some manual clean up.
Here I've tried to subtract the wolf.

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>>8739000
Nah, that is pretty much impossible. The problem is that it's very hard to distinguish soft lines of the original pic from lines of the background. You have no label that tells you which is which. You best shot is to increase contrast or whatever has been done already in this thread and try some guessing. Appears to be some sort of scorpion.

>>8739064
It does actually read "Scorpion" at the left hand of the Wereboar.

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It often helps to apply a colormap to the picture to make the dynamic range a little easier to see without throwing away visual information.

>>8739081
that seems to be a good start.
I'm now trying to rotate the color scheme and split the channels

>>8739000
what the shit is going on in this thread

>>8739093
non-cosmetic image manipulation.
>>8739087
crap, this doesn't work.

>>8739093
desu, I was hoping for people to suggest something with convolution, neural networks or frequency analysis. but whatevs...