What's the evidence that the colors were added later?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I find it hard to imagine that certain illustrations should have looked like this:

It looks strange to us who have spent a billion hours looking at the color scans of that page.  But otherwise that basicallu is how the Scribe would have drawn it.  

The Zodiac diagrams after Taurus and several Cosmo diagrams, including f86v3, have very little color -- but we don't think they are "unfinished", because we have always seen them like that.  There is no colored water in the pond at the top of f80r, but we dont find that strange because ditto ditto. 

Maybe there were some ripple lines in that area, but they would have been erased by the paint.  In the bottom pool of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there are flow lines that enter the pool area, but were all but erased by the paint.

All the best, --stolfi