The "gallows" characters

[Anton]

Anton, there are points also on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f113r.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - not sure what is going here at all... Why the gallows is so very ornate, to begin with? Nine loops, but dots are only in seven or eight of them. What is covered is cho cto, which counts as nine, if we consider t as q plus tail modifier. If we consider it a single shape, then it would be eight, but that would contradict our decomposition of k in my previous post. On the other hand, sheey which is situated right beneath the ornate part of the gallows is decomposed into exactly eight primitives.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - this shape is highly non-standard, I would not even call it gallows. Hence I would not say if it "covers" something or not. If yes, then it covers ch, which is decomposed into three shapes (which nicely corresponds to three dots).

To summarize, the idea is that the guy counted base shapes situated right beneath the gallows, and, in order not to lose his count, he placed dots (and maybe also stripes) into the respective gallows. Why is the count important, and for what purpose, I'm at a loss to suggest. Also, it is hard to tell, why, with so comparatively many occurrences of gallows coverage, the dots/stripes are basically very rare - like if counting was required only in some particular cases.