Re: Scripts in 3-D?

>From: Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
>On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:47:24 CST, "Daniel A. Wier" <dawier@...>
>wrote:
>
> >What are some of the natlang scripts with this two-dimensional system.
>Or
> >theoretically, could you have 3-D writing?  I'd imagine only engraved
> >systems like cuneiform could accomodate something like this.  A 3-D
>syllable
> >could have each dimension being: horizontal (R > L) for onset consonant,
> >vertical (T > B) for vowels, and finally depth of stroke (shallow > deep)
> >indicating a third characteristic, probably nasal vowels, spirantized
> >consonant, or what not.
>
>I've thought about the possibility of a "script" based on tying different
>kinds of knots in a string (kind of like quipu), which would technically be
>a kind of 3-D writing, but I don't know how the details would work out.
Great idea!  Something like Ogham, perhaps?  (That's the old pre-Christian
writing system of Irish; it's made up of a continuous line with one to five
marks of different types for consonants and vowels...)

Come to think of it, I used to think of Devanagari as being a long telephone
line with snakes dangling from it.

Danny
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