Re: aliens!

On Dec 8, 2007 12:13 AM, B Garcia <montrei13@...> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007 3:09 PM, John Campbell <campbell.2006@...> wrote:
> > I found that planet 21 looked like pictographs, 5 looked like a game
> > of tic tac toe. 2 looks interesting.
> > Maybe a conscript could use system with a tic tac toe sort of
> > background where depending on where the
> > dot is would change the meaning. It's probably already been done, though.
>
> I honestly would not be surprised if that's true. You could get quite
> a few phonemes out of a tic-tac-toe grid.
I've seen a simple substitution cipher for English that was based on a
tic-tac-toe grid.

IIRC, the idea was to have a tic-tac-toe grid (nine sectors), a cross
(four wedges), another TTT grid with a dot in each sector and another
cross with a dot in each wedge, for a total of 26 symbols. Then only
write the actual segment.

For example, the third symbol would look like an L, the fifth like a
square, the tenth like a V, the eleventh like a >, etc., with symbols
14-26 having a dot inside the geometrical shape.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>