25-02-2026, 03:48 AM
Like many others, I have often thought that a vovelle similar to what you are proposing is a potential encoding device. The main issue that I came to when I tried for many weeks, is that I couldn't render a device with a consistent set of rules that could produce any paragraphs found in the VMS.
It is nice to generate text with similar statistics, but to me this is largely pointless because you can overfit to statistics quite easily. The real difficulty is showing that you can consistently create some sort of plaintext based on your vovelle and the pre-existing voynichese paragraphs.
Given the restrictive structure of voynichese, there aren't actually that many combinations that a three wheeled vovelle can be formated as (if it is done with some thought and not randomly).
It is nice to generate text with similar statistics, but to me this is largely pointless because you can overfit to statistics quite easily. The real difficulty is showing that you can consistently create some sort of plaintext based on your vovelle and the pre-existing voynichese paragraphs.
Given the restrictive structure of voynichese, there aren't actually that many combinations that a three wheeled vovelle can be formated as (if it is done with some thought and not randomly).


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