05-05-2021, 02:05 PM
I was going to say @Davidsch, before Rene beat me to it, I feel like the method you describe merits a simple illustration. I'm intrigued, but I think I'd have to see it visually to fully understand how it works. What you describe immediately brings to mind Patrick Feaster's observation that the segments or "syllables" of vords seem to cycle, at different rates and seemingly independent of each other (or dependent in a way that isn't simple or obvious), over the course of a Voynichese paragraph. He illustrates this with sliding strips on his webpage. I have an image in my head of three completely different sized gears interlocking and turning each other, with each gear then rotating at a different speed. If one were to number each sprocket tooth, and then make a sequential list of which teeth make contact with which others as the gears turn, one might come up with a pattern very similar to the "deep patterns" Prof Feaster sees in Voynichese.
@Rene, I'm very much looking forward to Lang's work on the Rohonc Codex too. I'm no cryptography expert, but I think what both the VMs and the RC might end up teaching us, is that encipherment techniques in the olden days may have been much more varied and sophisticated than the received historical record would have us believe. After all, if I really wanted a piece of information to remain secure, I'd come up with a wholly novel and unprecedented method of encipherment, and never talk or write about how it works.
@Rene, I'm very much looking forward to Lang's work on the Rohonc Codex too. I'm no cryptography expert, but I think what both the VMs and the RC might end up teaching us, is that encipherment techniques in the olden days may have been much more varied and sophisticated than the received historical record would have us believe. After all, if I really wanted a piece of information to remain secure, I'd come up with a wholly novel and unprecedented method of encipherment, and never talk or write about how it works.