How to recombine glyphs to increase character entropy?

[RobGea]

This is really cool, thanks for the effort! What I was doing felt like manually imitating a genetic algorithm, so it is reassuring that we get similar results.

No problem, it was fun to do ( sort of ) once the code was up and running it gave results that were in accordance with yours so that helped me push on.

Do you also feel like this approach has been pushed to its limits now?

Yes , my impression is that what you have done has approached the limits, there is maybe a little left.


Then there is the addition of using spaces in the n-grams and
possibly getting the n-grams from words only
ReneZ mentioned it, using spaces as separators but not characters, so n-grams from across word boundaries are excluded.
I think that that won't change much but spaces are a whole different story.

For the method of replacing strings in general, as you mentioned in your blog, it's a small step into the big world of verbose ciphers.

There are also various flavors of entropy: joint entropy, mutual entropy, cross entropy etc.
No doubt some of these could be leveraged on the VMS.
An interesting case is the use of entropy calculations to find nulls ( in specific conditions ),
mentioned at the bottom of this page ( incidentally the same place where i got the entropy code to put in my prog ).
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