Re: VMs: algorithm to generate VMS like text

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Brett Cotton <xzvxcvczcv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> a week or two ago a there was a post saying that it
> would be difficult
> to generate VMS text using a an algorithm. I brought
> together some thoughts that I had recently and now
> have a (not quite perfect yet) program that will
> generate any amount of VMS style text. Here is the
> output of the program when generating 15 lines of
> text:
>  
> Input number of lines ?15                           
>      
> OE PTPTCG HCCO2G DC8G AIR AM TC8GHC8 SOHAET2 TC8G   

Etc...
That looks quite interesting indeed. Most people 
(including myself) are not too familiar with the
FSG alphabet, so it is hard to judge. In fact,
this could be a sample taken straight out of the
VMs and I wouldn't be able to say :-)

The check with Monkey should be quite interesting,
and should of course be compared with samples
also done in FSG, unless you make the change to
Courier (my humble recommendation).
For visualisation of the text (but not
for statistics!) Eva is a good candidate since
you can use the Eva-hand 1 font to see whether
it really looks like Voynichese.

Some questions/observations: 
- as you are probably aware, one existing piece
  of software that can generate VMs look-alike
  text is of course Monkey itself, but that is a
  bit like 'cheating', since it needs to read
  VMs text first, before it can do it.
- Does your program generate the text 'out of
  the blue sky', or can it also use a plain text
  as an input and convert from that?
  A bit of a leading question, isn't it :-)
 
Cheers, Rene 

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