[Blog Post] Rightward and Downward in the Voynich Manuscript - Patrick Feaster

[pfeaster]

could you find a way to merge these with the following:   horizontal line size in amount of words and/or vertical line size in amount of words ?

I've done some experimenting with a different kind of display that assigns the vertical axis to line length (in vords) rather than downwardness in paragraphs.  The blue and green color channels represent the target phenomenon (again by vord), while the red color channel shows the total quantity of lines of each length for reference.  I've also varied the height of each row by line length to try to make the area taken up by each vord position roughly equal.

Here's a display made that way of the distribution of [daiin] on Scribe 3 pages.

   

I've tried the same approach to show distribution by glyph string, ignoring spaces, although without varying the height of rows.  Here's an example of that, again for Scribe 3 pages, with [ok] and [ot] alternating in an animated GIF.

   

So far I don't notice any obvious statistically significant differences by line length, although I wouldn't want to draw any serious conclusions from just these few examples.

I'm less sure how to handle variations in paragraph height.