Re: AW: Counting the Gallow Bits

[Brian Eric Farnell <bfarnell@xxxxxxx>]

Claus Anders wrote:
> Today I had the idea to make a bitmap of the VMS:
> 1. For every char in VMS I compute the frequncy and assign a color to the
> char depending on frequency: from red (low frequncy) to blue (high
> frequency). Than map every page to this colouring scheme using e.g a 10
> pages by 10 pages grid. For the whole VMS I will get around 2 Bitmaps. Myabe
> the image could reveal some structure (Courier A and B or something like
> that).
> 2. Then do the same for char pairs or triplets
> 3. At last the same for tokens
> Do you think this is futile?
> Cheers
> Claus
I like it, this is sort of what I have been thinking about with
music, though it looks like similar things have been done
before.  I was thinking about assigning each letter a value and
then drawing the curve between the values so that while still
keeping to two dimensions, you can show letter, word position
and have some data regarding relationships between letters.  I
was still trying to find a meaningful way to assign the values,
some method reproduceable with any piece of known or unknown
text. Beyond this, we looked at alot of ideas with gallows bits
as being a quality, rather than a  single letter.  This could
also be played with in the same sort of graph, using the gallows
as different wave forms on the same frequencies. 
Regards,
Brian