Root Typology as a Predictor of Floral and Textual Features in the Voynich Manuscript

[eggyk]

Counting flowers or leaves would measure visual quantity, not structural logic.
My dataset isn’t about how many elements appear, but how the root geometry itself repeats and crosses - the “X‑format” is a specific structural motif, not a countable feature.
In other words, I’m not correlating decoration density with text; I’m testing whether a distinct morphological pattern (crossed roots) systematically aligns with textual anomalies.
That’s a completely different level of correlation - it’s about form and function, not number and ornament.
So yes, both approaches involve counting, but mine isolates a structural variable - the presence of a repeated geometric logic - rather than a visual abundance like petals or leaves.

 

Replacing em-dash with minus does not hide AI slop. 

The title was enough honestly.