Re: AW: Counting the Gallow Bits

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	By all means try it! Other list members have done
similar things.  Rene used a 
color map to find possible clusters of A and B pages:

http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/lang.htm

and Stolfi colored letters to indicate character
entropy (can't reach his server but here's his VMs
page:

http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/

Dennis

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
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Gabriel Landini [mailto:G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. September 2000 09:58
> An: Claus Anders
> Betreff: Re: Counting the Gallow Bits
> 
> On 12 Sep 2000, at 20:18, Claus Anders wrote:
> > yes I counted the labels too, but they're even long lines (11 tokens
> > or less) with 100% 1 coverage.
> 
> Well, those statistics will mix the rules of word construction with
> those of grammar.
> I would count only those in text lines but not labels since a sequence
> of labels may not have any grammatical structure.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gabriel