(17-05-2019, 11:33 AM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As an example to define an "8" shape we could possibly use an equation like:
y^4 = a^2(y^2-x^2)
^ means to the power of. (Where the letter a is a constant.)
This requires no references to scripts.
I would think many, if not all, Voynichese shapes could be defined in this kind of way.
Well, of course we can. All the VMS glyphs could be mathematically modeled. That's what I do for a living. I'm a software developer in the graphics field.
But that's not what you were asking in this thread.
You were asking our subjective opinions on whether we thought the VMS shape looked like a "q" or like a "4". In your title you said this:
Quote:Mark: The top left hand loop of the gallows characters is a 4. Who disagrees?
I think one of the reasons we are having trouble communicating is because it is a moving target. First of all you didn't provide enough context for us to answer to your satisfaction. And then you changed the question along the way without informing us that it's not the same one you asked in the first post, and confusing us by referring to scripts in the following post when actually all you want to discuss is the relative geometry.