A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text

[Jorge_Stolfi]

This is the closest chart I have to a less abrupt transition and you may remember it from my work on <ed>.  It's showing the switch between scribe 1 and <ho> and scribe 2 and <ed>.  And yes, the pages are reordered but, the background is shaded according to Currier A and B.  So there is a gradual change but...

Thanks for the chart.  But suppose that there are two sets of pages: Set A where ed is never used and the frequency of ho varies randomly and uniformly between 0.05 and 0.55, and set B where the frequency if ho varies randomly and uniformly between 0.05 and 0.10, while that of ed varies randomly and uniformly between 0.00 and 0.40.  

If you plot the frequencies with the pages in some random order, but with all A pages first then the B pages, what you will see is just that: two different random distributions.

But if you sort the pages by decreasing frequency of ho or of the ratio ho/ed, the plot would look just like your plot.  You will see a gradual transition from (ho = 0.55, ed = 0.00) to (ho = 0.05, ed = 0.40).  A transition that does not exist in the data, and was created wholly by the sorting.

All the best, --stolfi