Re: Non-linear full-2d writing (again)
From: | Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 29, 2006, 18:18 |
Paul Bennett wrote:
> a writing system where any number
> of branches may be possible for some given grapheme.
Impossible. If nothing else you run across limits in your
medium. Even if it weren't impossible I don't feel this is a
desired goal since it would complicate comprehension to no
apparent benefit.
> I don't know where
> this space-filling stuff came from, to be honest. I rather feel it may
> be some form of boojum.
In space filling systems information is contained in the tokens
(shapes) themselves. Since you appear to be defining connections
separately from tokens the design does not need to be
space-filling. However, since connections are encoded separately
from tokens as your connections increase so does the average
significant distance between tokens, and the time required to use
those connections.
--
Jefferson
http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/