What can be saved, and how the technology that saves it works, written by the people building it. Conservation sources and primary papers linked. No listicles.
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Restoration is an inverse problem with no unique answer. The era-by-era research story, from specialist GANs to instruction-driven diffusion, and why every output is one plausible pick among many. 20 primary sources.
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