(05-07-2025, 10:19 AM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This scheme is a pain to encode/decode, and I guess it's much more complicated than the actual cipher of the Voynich manuscript, but it shows that in principle it doesn't take advanced tech to encode text via self-citation.
Nice idea!
I took the same criteria for word modification (max. 1 added letter, max. 1 removed letter, so 1 replaced letter counts as 1 added, 1 removed) and applied them to the "sequential transfer pattern" (preserving the order of words) from max. 2 previous lines of paragraphs on the same page, that I expected to be restrictive enough to yield possibly interesting results with little noise.
Results (number of target lines matching the pattern/total number of lines):
Q13: 39/777* (5%)
Q20: 15/1085 (1%)
* I removed labels and some short lines in and around illustrations
In Torsten Timm's generated_text (with 29 lines per page) this pattern is almost as frequent as in Q13:
53/1200 (4%)
So it is not as unlikely as I thought that this pattern would occur by chance.
Nothing to see there: it's just noise.
