How to recombine glyphs to increase character entropy?
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The entropy we are talking about is character entropy. This means: if I give you a glyph, how easily can you predict the next one? In EVA, if I give you "c", you can very easily predict "h". Of course this is one of the first transformations to perform. As René says, however, tackling the most obvious candidates like "ch" does not bring us anywhere close to any text in any normal language. Even if all cases where EVA potentially splits glyphs are rectified, Voynichese still has a ridiculously low character entropy. So what I tried was to go even further, by also combining glyphs that are clearly separate. And then trying thousands of different combinations. 

The language of the comparison text does not matter and the subject does not matter: Voynichese is in a whole different league. Its characters are extremely predictable, even if we eliminate effects of EVA.
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RE: How to recombine glyphs to increase character entropy? - by Koen G - 21-04-2022, 03:19 PM

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