17-05-2019, 12:06 PM
(17-05-2019, 07:09 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hello Don,
what you write is not wrong. However, the thread title doesn't say:
"The top left hand (etc) is a triangle".
Furthermore, Mark says that the purpose of all this is to be able to find the origin of these shapes. At the same time, we are not allowed to look in documents contemporary to the Voynich MS to find examples and counter-examples.
So, just looking at the Voynich MS, in most t and p characters, the leftmost tip is mostly rounded.
In the q characters, it tends to be a bit more pointed, but is also often rounded.
In principle, I suppose one could measure and compute stats of the slopes of the oblique lines, but I think that should be left to someone who thinks that there is a useful outcome of such a non-trivial exercise.
(Implication: it won't be me).
The end goal is to establish the origin of these shapes, but the intermediate goal and the purpose of this thread is to establish what the actual visual appearance if the shape is. I referred to diplomatic cipher alphabets as this constitutes my personal motivation for this question, however that is not the purpose of the thread; I think we have to avoid getting into a very broad discussion in this thread which could go anywhere.