>> Re: VMs: algorithm to generate VMS like text
>> Hi Rene I'll have a look at producing Courier and EVA. The
algorithm uses data from a >> >> previous program that analysed
all of the FSG text in the interlinear 1.7 file and produced a >> list
of contact frequencies for each "letter". This is then plugged in to the text
generator as a >> look up table for each letter. I then seed a random
number generator and based on the
>> current letter, do a lookup on the table of right hand contact
frequencies for that letter to
>> produce the next letter in the sequence. I have treated space as
a letter here. So, to answer
>> your "blue sky" question, there is no input text and the output
is different each time the
>> program is run but still has (or should have) all the
characteristics of FSG text. proviso here
>> is - the look up tables for each letter are tables of 100
letters, so any letter that contacts
>> less than 0.5% has been dropped I then thought that if an
algorithm can produce text that is
>> alike to the VMS and cannot be proved statistically to differ
from the VMS then that
>> algorithm could be a computational representation of a physical
process used to generate
>> the text at random. I have an idea of how this might work but
want to spend a bit more time
>> on it before posting to the list. Anyway, I'll change the
program to produce Courier and EVA
>> first and get some stats from Monkey.
>> Regards,
>> Brett
> Rene Zandbergen r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Brett Cotton 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
ofthe 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
BTW my version of voynichese does start from plain text which is why I am
very interested in Brett's program to see how it works and if it can give me a
few pointers on the character substitutions. To see if I can make the
encipherment have similar letter placings to the VMS.
Brett. I would be glad to email back any details of my own algorithm if
you would like to take a look. Do you have access to Delphi? Maybe C++? I
could write up the method into a program if it would help.
Jeff