I started to marker some of the "characters". But now i think it's pointless, cause we need a better grid (some single blocks and :-shaped ones could be different from each other depending on the placing in the cell)
Now the code actually speaks to me! It says
Well, I've tried going into Photoshop and combining all of the lines of dots into one line. Looks like nothing to me, but I might be wrong. Thoughts?
It's not photoshop, i swear
Though maybe it's not supposed to be only one line... But now that i think of it the most characters there are 3x3 and to form a letter it should be like... 3x5 or something... like in "e" there's dot-space-dot-space-dot in the middle. So... it's not gonna work either way, i think
Okay, re-made it a bit, first 5 lines now looks more readable
And it looks like we already can make a wild guess that letter with dot in the middle is A.
* I think i'll code a little script tomorrow to test it.
Last edited by Xvostya; 07-20-2017 at 06:42 PM. Reason: * plans updated!
If it's read left to right, top to bottom, A doesn't work well for that. The first word on the second line ends with two of those in a row. There's really no way to "solve" it in that construction to get meaningful English words (the only letters that can appear alone are A and I, and neither is likely to appear as a double letter at the end of a word). That means one of:
1) It's not in English (unlikely, unless it's numerical)
2) The 3x5 gridding is wrong
3) It isn't read left to right, top to bottom
4) This approach of grouping the dots as a cipher is totally off
Edited to add: I've been staring at this on and off all day and I've not come up with anything useful.
There's also a possibility that the spacing is deliberately wrong. Maybe this "AA" is actualy the end of some word and then the start of another word... Or something (like this is not an A and it's not in the end of the word, but in a middle of it). I think there should be the way to feed this data to freq analysis script or something. Decipher it in the old-fashioned way. Like in Poe's story... uhhmm... 'Gold Bug'? Don't know the english title, sorry. But you got the idea
Last edited by define; 07-20-2017 at 07:22 PM.
wot in tarnation
How many unique characters are there?
It's too early to say. We don't even know yet which grid we should use, with 3x3 or 3x4 or 3x5 cells... in 3x3 grid the number of possible variations of ONLY ONE DOT (!!) placed in the different spots is 9. Soooo... There are enough characters for me to finish the deciphering in the mental institution.
What I mean though, is how many are displayed on that image? Not the possible ones. I think it's pretty safe to say it's 3 wide and 5 tall looks correct.
Well, i don't think so. But may be it's 3x5. I think it's 3x3. How many are there depends on a grid. So i can't say for sure. What is pretty safe to say is that there are enough of those for english alphabet+punctuation, i guess.
And also it's usually the combination of kanji+kana. Almost impossible to decipher, i don't think TR is such a sadist.
Unless the layout is totally different too the underlying text, it's at least 3×5. If you look at the D in and on the 14th line down, there are clearly 5 rows (a chevron pointing up with three dots, then a gap, then a single dot in the bottom right).
Last edited by define; 07-20-2017 at 09:08 PM.
Or maybe there was another reason for this. I don't know. But the majority of this symbols actually fit into 3x3 grid...
UPD. Also if the grid is actually 3x5 there're too many possible veriations of the dots. Too many for the english alphabet, i guess...
Last edited by define; 07-20-2017 at 09:51 PM.