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Very nice
collection! I have a few you don't have, and you have a few I don't
have. One thing they all demonstrate however, is that artificial alphabets
tend naturally to be built around basic forms. if the shape is a box, the
characters tend to be boxes and boxy angles,. etc. The VMS script falls
right into this category, being built up around the 'stroke' and the 'c' forms,
and the gallows are all similar to one another as well, similar to the '4' form,
etc. My observation that there are 4 variations for each major form should
not go unnoticed when attempting to determine just exactly how the VMS script
was built, since if we take the alphabets of Porta and Vigenere into
account, we see that their tableaus have relationships between similar
forms. If the VMS glyphs have relationships similar to
those in Porta for instance, then they would have similar statistical
properties. This seems to be the case for all but a few rare glyphs, and
has been to me very telling in reference to the underlying structure
of the VMS alphabet.
GC
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