15-09-2020, 10:19 PM
At the very bottom of the normal range, but yes, much closer to normal than the original EVA.
I'm not sure whether this actually shows something about how the VM was encoded. But it is interesting to have this information.
Either way, this approach veers away from a spontaneous, "naive" writing system and dives straight into verbose cipher territory. In earlier posts I was exploring what happens if you merge glyphs that may have been split by EVA, like [ch]. But all the examples involving [o] go further than that. I guess they take [o] as a modifier for the next glyph.
It must also be said that I simply took n-gram frequency as a guide, and did some trial and error to see what worked best (I attempted to reflect this process in the post). But entropy is an unpredictable beast, and it may be that there are more effective options and combinations...
Should I split this into a thread about verbose ciphers?
I'm not sure whether this actually shows something about how the VM was encoded. But it is interesting to have this information.
Either way, this approach veers away from a spontaneous, "naive" writing system and dives straight into verbose cipher territory. In earlier posts I was exploring what happens if you merge glyphs that may have been split by EVA, like [ch]. But all the examples involving [o] go further than that. I guess they take [o] as a modifier for the next glyph.
It must also be said that I simply took n-gram frequency as a guide, and did some trial and error to see what worked best (I attempted to reflect this process in the post). But entropy is an unpredictable beast, and it may be that there are more effective options and combinations...
Should I split this into a thread about verbose ciphers?


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