What if the images are entirely like the text, various scenarios.

[MichelleL11]

1. A more complex cipher. I use the word cipher here with purpose, because it carries within it the intention to obfuscate. If the same principles apply to the imagery, this would mean it is obfuscated as well, it does not speak plainly. Whether this is done out of fear, secrecy, exercise or boredom doesn't really matter. If the imagery is like a complex cipher, what can we expect of it?
   

A symbolic representation of the operation of the cipher, hidden in plain sight, for starters...

Hi, Nablator:
I actually ran across a proposal exactly along these lines that I'd like to share.  When I read it, I thought, that just could be possible.  

   

Patrick Feaster suggested on his blog that this might be the representation of the encoding process.  He has developed a system that encodes "Voynich-like" script using an encoding board (that records the plain text letters) and using movement of a marker, that he names a "jeton."  The encoding process involves turning the board at various times.  Obviously he is not the first nor the last to do this, and his system doesn't work precisely, I did find do find his work refreshingly concrete and well explained.  

Although in presenting his theory about what the illustration at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was he was more abstract and applicable to the problem at hand (e.g. pictorially how to encode the cipher, turn the board, etc.), I thought it could well just represent the author(s) in the act of creating the manuscript.  Four creators crowded around a board (albeit a weird, scalloped-shape board, but it is the Voynich, after all), outstretched arms maybe representing working together(?), with a round "jeton" placed in the middle, directing the next glyph.

   

All Hail the Jeton!

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