Re: VMs: Artificial voynich - Its time to put up !!!!

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Dear Adam,
>
> Initially, Jeff's approach used one table per EVA letter (which, given
that
> EVA is a modern stroke transcription retrofitted to Voynichese, seemed
> somewhat likely to be wide of the mark).
>
> More recently, he has refined this to add attributes to letters that only
> allow them to appear in certain positions (ie, at word-start, word-middle,
> or word-end).
>
> This is, as you suspect, a method of generating VMs-like text using a
> pre-decided set of language-like statistics (in his case, those implicit
in
> an (unnamed) Italian plaintext). The more rules and filters he applies,
the
> more it will resemble Voynichese - but the pay-off per additional rule
will
> rapidly diminish. Naturally, at no stage will it be Voynichese. :-(
>
> Jeff also adds:-
> "It also has links to tag the same for triplets [by] having each
> pair link to a list of following letters, also marked with the
> flags for initiating a word, continuing a word or ending a word.
> It is quite a compact table."
>
> This sounds like yet more adjacency rules to filter out bad-looking
> "sentences" (by hacking word-final-to-word-start transitions). So many
> rules, so little pay-off! :-(
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>

Correction! The statistics are ALL derived from EVA and not an Italian plain
text. YOU HAVE ALL misunderstood what I have done. Remember Jon Grove's
attempt at encoding genesis? Well I have gone the other way. I have mapped
all the routes through the EVA for valid combination sequences. So Nick?
What do you say now?

Jeff


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