Engineering your own voynich

[MarcoP]

I used Nablator's java class to compute mattr 20 / 200 for the cipher text and four English texts:

k King James' Genesis
s Shakespeare's Sonnets
m Moby Dick
a Alice in Wonderland

For the English texts, I defined tokens in three different ways:

WORDS: the first book of moses called genesis
BIGRAMS: th ef ir st bo ok of mo se sc ...
TRIGRAMS: the fir stb ook ofm ose sca lle dge nes ...

   

Unless I messed up something, the plot seems to confirm the idea put forward by Koen and Emma.

A bigram-based Voynich-like cipher was discussed by Donald Fisk You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

A trigram-based Voynich-like cipher is discussed in Rene's "Cardan Grille" paper. I posted an example You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

While the resulting word structure can be made to be very similar to Voynichese, of course all the features of Voynichese "grammar" are missing (e.g. no or very little full or partial reduplication).