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

[doranchak]

Perhaps a few modifications could make it work better. So because of that I am sorry that he decided to leave. As it is now, our opinions on the matter will likely remain varied. But if more facts gets put into the theory that modified it a little, maybe it would fit the observations better and could be more convincing.

It would be interesting to generalize Timm's algorithmic rules as a point in a searchable space of encoding steps.

While it may be true that Timm's rules don't adequately capture all of the statistical qualities of Voynichese, perhaps some other point in that space would.  

That space can be explored using a search method that manipulates the text-production rules and measures the result's closeness to the desired qualities of Voynichese.  Repeat until the the result is as close as possible without producing overly complex rules (preferably something a scribe could implement).  It would be an interesting demonstration of feasibility.

Has this sort of "algorithmic search for an algorithm" been done before?  It seems similar to research I've seen before of deriving formal grammars for Voynichese.