Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

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Has anyone even done a stroke-based transcript?

Philip Neal was working on this but I don't know how far he got.

Thanks, René. I was curious about whether someone had tackled it. It's not hard to produce a stroke-based font or to set up the code to take an existing transcript and break it into its basic components (this seems to me the easiest way to do it, rather than hand-generating a transcript). The bigger challenge is deciding which parts are considered "separate" from the VMS designer's point of view and then relating that to the text itself.

There's no doubt that there is a curve-line pattern to the glyphs, but whether this is related to meaning, or whether the designer started with common basic shapes like a o i and went from there for simple visual similarity, I don't know. Invented alphabets often have patterns of certain repeated shapes.


And then there is the separate issue of whether the way the glyphs are sequenced is related to shape (something that I've been looking into for a while).