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Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
- Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
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RE: Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
anyasophira > 27-05-2026, 05:53 AM
The entry on the voynich days have a lot of the most recent information and research. The past two years were great as they had a lot of research about the way the text behaves( loops , line as a function etc) Lisa Fagin Davis scribe work and the naibbe cipher. YouTube has the videos.
I particularly love the research Tavie does on the text features and Patrick Feaster’s loops, but there are many incredible researchers.
The 2022 Voynich conference is also great.
Also René is the glue that holds a lot of this together- his site will have latest info. But the work is slow and hard won.
Enjoy the rabbit holes
Annah/Anya -
RE: Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
petronio > 28-05-2026, 04:35 PM
I'm new here. I'm an independent researcher and my focus is on text statistics — specifically whether the structure of Voynichese tokens fits known morphological patterns when systematically compared across corpora from different language families. The goal is typological, not a specific decipherment: trying to characterise what kind of writing system the statistics point to, before asking which one. Stolfi's work on the structural properties of the text is what initially attracted me. I found the forum very interesting and I'm sure I still have a lot to learn here. -
RE: Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
DG97EEB > 28-05-2026, 05:29 PM
(28-05-2026, 04:35 PM)petronio Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm new here. I'm an independent researcher and my focus is on text statistics — specifically whether the structure of Voynichese tokens fits known morphological patterns when systematically compared across corpora from different language families. The goal is typological, not a specific decipherment: trying to characterise what kind of writing system the statistics point to, before asking which one. Stolfi's work on the structural properties of the text is what initially attracted me. I found the forum very interesting and I'm sure I still have a lot to learn here.
I've created a Voynich search engine. Use it to see what has been discussed before.. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. -
RE: Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
petronio > 29-05-2026, 10:08 PM
Thank you — that's exactly the kind of resource I needed. Very useful to have a searchable archive, especially on the statistical side. I'll be spending some time going through it! -
RE: Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?
Mauro > 3 hours ago
(26-05-2026, 12:30 PM)quimqu Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I’m not working on any Voynich solution. Since the beginning of my study, mostly driven by curiosity, I’ve been trying to analyse the peculiarities of the text, look for patterns, and things like that, but today it’s impossible for me to propose any solution that really fits with what I found. Most of the things I found were already known before, I just arrived to them through diferent methods and experiments.
Right now I honestly can’t even say if I believe the text has meaning or not, or if it is a cipher or not. And I think it’s a waste of time to confront any theorical solution before we really understand the limits and characteristics of the text itself.
For me, the correct direction is this one: understand the text as much as possible first, and then maybe one day, with some inspiration (well, it may take more than one day), think about a possible solution that could explain everything.
I agree with quimqu, and I've seen progress made in this direction on this forum lately. There have also been other interesting developments (ie. the thread on month names in the marginalia and the thread on castles with swallowtail merlons).
If I had time at the moment to write some more code I'd explore the idea of a many-to-many (and thus probably undecipherable) substitution cipher, which is as good as many other ideas, and probably also as bad.