(24-01-2025, 11:50 AM)Dobri wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A 2-letter arrangement "ab" gives only two permutation choices, "ab" and "ba".
A 3-letter arrangement "abc" gives 3! = 6 permutations where the selection of each permutation would depend on the symbols adjacent to the bench.
The addition of a fourth benched symbol (gallows or vowel (?) shapes) further increases the number of prospective choices.
As far as I can see, this scheme in effect just replaces short sequences of plaintext letters with short sequences of Voynichese letters. This scheme would not be very hard to break with modern computational resources, I'd say it would have been broken by now, unless the plaintext language is exotic or something else is going on. It's not very hard to iterate over possible maps from all frequent 1-3 Latin letter combinations to all frequent 1-3 Voynichese letter combinations and then see whether there is a combination that produces mostly dictionary words from Latin (German, Greek). I think I even tried something like this as an experiment a couple of years ago, for Latin specifically.
The specific mechanism by which the correspondence is produced (e.g., permutations of some sequence specified by adjacent characters) is not really important, I think.