[Article] An Optical Approach for Decoding the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

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Joben, I don't know if I kept the experiments (I used Photoshop), but I tried a few things years ago. I don't think I tried doubling the text as in the example you posted (which means I didn't try enough combinations), but I did try combining some of the different tokens and different glyphs upside-down to right-side-up or mirrored and overlaid to see if it yielded anything interesting.

With the VMS I always get the feeling something is missing, but maybe it's there and just needs to be put together in the right way.


I'll look around my files and see if I kept any of it. Sometimes I delete things so that I won't get too hung up on one way of looking at things.

Experimenting with optical effects that could have been used at the time of the VMs seems like a reasonable thing to do imo. So many research hours has been spent attacking the manuscript from other angles without bearing much fruit, so why not, right?