Re: VMs: Entropy again

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

3/1/03 10:37:09 PM, "Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>I guess for analysis you need at least need to be sure to use  
>"cph" instead of "cPh" or you would get a p vs P thing going on.

I do not want to make it Voynich-specific. So it means that
I should allow for a "filter", a sort of Bitrans pre-processor.
This calls for a very different, and not intuitive, user 
interface.

>The more I look at the pages the more I think there are 
>only about 12 basic Voy characters:  
>a o e i b q d l n r s y

There are only about 15 basic strokes in Chinese writing,
and they can be reduced to fewer... let me see...
dian3 (dot), heng2 (horizontal line), shu4 (vertical line)
na4 (slanting down), ti2 (up), pie3 (curved acute),
wo4 (the second stroke in xin "heart"), zhe2 (90-degrees
change of direction), gou (final hook). I do not think
I have forgotten any. Any character can be "spelt out"
in terms of those nine fundamental elements. For instance
xiao3 "small" is: dian3, shu4-gou, dian3 (dot, vertical
stroke ending in a hook, dot). "Heart" is dian3, wo4,
dian3, dian3.

>The rest are combinations of these. ch is ei run together, 
>t is ql run together, etc.

Well, a capital M is a combination of a V and two flanking
I's, isn't it? And a Greek alpha is a lambda with a horizontal
added. And a theta an omicron with a horizontal stroke inside.

It isn't easy. Nor obvious, when you think about it.


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