The Cardan grille approach to the Voynich MS taken to the next level

[aStobbart]

The idea of wheels geared together makes me think of an astrolabe and how it works (a mainframe with a rotating disk).

I have been thinking of astrolabe since looking at zodiac signs and meanings, but I'm not sure if they could create structure of writings from that. Do you think it is possible?

Instead of wheels, you have a set of disks of different diammeters and these disk overlap one another. The outer wheel would be the disk with the larger diameter and so on. Then the machine has a default position, where you need to align the disks in a certain way in order to create Voynichese. Or maybe the operator can create his own version of Voynichise by rotating disks at his own will (from the "default position" rotate the outer disk 2 positions to the right, middle disk 3 pisitions to the left...)

The grille then would be an overlay that covers the entire machine and has three holes, one for each disk. That is what I had in mind.

Edit: Off course there would be several grilles with holes in different positions that the operator uses to create different words, once the machine is set to the desired position (Or maybe the same grille can rotate in fixed positions and thus a unique grill can be used to get many combinations,,,,).

Maybe the disks have blank spaces too, and these blank characters are used to mark the end/beggining. of a vord. Since the text is fabricated, spaces are meaningless. There could be cominations that get you 2 blank characters in a row, and this could mark the end of a paragraph...