PSA: Be careful with that new 'gentle brush' technique on fresco fragments

I tried it on a small piece from a Roman site replica, and the supposedly soft bristles still took off a layer of pigment. Learned the hard way that 'gentle' is relative, and you really need to test on the absolute worst sample piece you have first. Anyone have a better method for cleaning these without losing detail?

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leet322mo ago

What did you test it on first?

gray_walker492mo agoMost Upvoted

Test it on what first" is the wrong way to look at it. That question assumes you need to test on something big right away. Honestly, you should just start with the smallest, dumbest thing you can think of. A blank file, a single line of code that does nothing. The point is to get the process going, not to pick some important target. Waiting for the perfect thing to test just means you never start.

john43015d ago

Thats an interesting way to put it, but I think testing on the smallest thing misses the point entirely. If you test on something that literally does nothing, you aren't really learning anything about how your process handles real code. You need some actual logic or data to trip up your setup, otherwise you're just checking if blank files exist.

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