01-06-2017, 06:49 PM
It's an interesting way of looking at it, Thomas. There surely seems to be a preference for certain shape types to follow others.
What confuses me a bit as a non-statistics minded person is that there can be several open spaces in the grid. The reasoning seems to be that filling in a spot is optional. But doesn't that kind of undermine the whole idea? How do you know that a grid like this underlies the system if it's not always filled in?
Just as a test I looked at the first word of a random page, which was on f88r:
![[Image: image.jpg?q=f88r-286-446-161-63]](https://voynich.ninja/extractor/image.jpg?q=f88r-286-446-161-63)
So that's 4-1-2-3-1-1, right?
Doesn't that turn your proposed solution into something like binary code, where the exact glyph doesn't matter but rather whether it is expressed (1) or omitted (0)?
What confuses me a bit as a non-statistics minded person is that there can be several open spaces in the grid. The reasoning seems to be that filling in a spot is optional. But doesn't that kind of undermine the whole idea? How do you know that a grid like this underlies the system if it's not always filled in?
Just as a test I looked at the first word of a random page, which was on f88r:
So that's 4-1-2-3-1-1, right?
Doesn't that turn your proposed solution into something like binary code, where the exact glyph doesn't matter but rather whether it is expressed (1) or omitted (0)?