(31-05-2026, 06:33 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'd be happy to run simulations if I knew what 'organic transformation' means.
High probability transformation methods (possibly low effort to optimize energy expenditure) from original source to Voynichese, that are potentially easy and intuitive.
A hoaxer's goal is to fill pages convincingly enough to get paid, and it is a question whether quickly. Their education and experience must have been thorough and extensive. So we can also assume they know perfectly well how to fake texts, feeling confident about it, optimizing for speed and not making mistakes in the process, might be safe and effective for them.
We could run a sort of a preliminary, take some key things the source database has, and try to see what kind of select pieces of data already produce something closer to Voynichese, maybe only taking first letter of a word, maybe last, maybe only both, maybe skipping lines. Pre removing words below x character count.
Id love to run tests myself but can't now.
I'd try to see the degree of movement from the 3.5-4.5 entropy based on what simple transformation, of the ones I mentioned, to the original db is done. Then I'd think of how to run it against VMS to try to derive the exact method they used.
The key is creating a couple databases of text samples they could have used to work in a team across such scale, to turn everything into glyphs. It seems they didn't go letter for letter, and possibly wanted to optimize for speed, so the methods suggested by others who studied entropy seem very arduous to an experienced team, unnecessary. From what I gather certain parts seem rushed, below standard quality, and some aspects especially the flashy ones, feature amazing levels of detail and craftsmanship. I know this is my impression, but I believe this is simply to tick all the boxes of the rich patrons, it has so much, and something exceptional in every category. But most of it is exactly just good enough to pass all tests.
I'm not sure if I forgot to emphasize - the most important aspect of the main databse for my proposed study is preparing the data by pages, rather than a body of text. Assuming they would read and copy from the sources page by page. So, this db needs to have fields like page number, line, and analyze it from the organic perspective of scribes in a team.
Not only analyzing the text wholly, but by transformations from the perspective of a scribe looking at page A and B in all configurations. Also A->B transition might be a variant, not just page by page, but integrsting the methods, trying to predict their supposed working environment.