22-07-2021, 04:39 PM
Marco, I'd also like to pull You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. into this discussion. He'll have to speak for himself, but it's my understanding that David Jackson leans gently in the direction of the VMs text being meaningless and stochastically generated strings of glyphs. But it's also clear from his blog post he's not against the possibility of the volvelles he proposes being used to generate meaningful, in other words encoded, strings of glyphs.
So here's what I'm picturing at this point:
So here's what I'm picturing at this point:
- The plaintext is demarcated into trigrams [deciding whether to include a space between words as a separate character for this purpose].
- A three-wheeled nesting volvelle is constructed. Each wheel is marked off into somewhere between 21 and 24 arcs of equal size, one for each letter of the alphabet used in the writing of the plaintext [plus or minus a value of "space" or "start a new word" for one of the segments]
- Assign 21~24 unique cipher glyphs — or short strings of cipher glyphs — to each arc of each wheel. For best results, keep overlap of cipher glyph strings between wheels to a minimum. At the very least, a plaintext letter should never encode the same cipher glyph string on more than one wheel
- For each demarcated trigram in turn, rotate the inner volvelle for the first letter, the middle for the second, and the outer for the third, to the window or pointer.
- The three ciphertext strings are transcribed together as one... vord. Move along to the next trigram and repeat step 4.