Re: [lojban] Re: Orthography

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

I have attempted to make a chart in which I count in binary using LCD clock characters.
http://www.nemorathwald.com/lojban/LCD_binary_chart.jpg
Black represents on, blue represents off. There are a hundred and
twenty eight, if you include zero, so that matches John's count. I'm
fairly sure every possible way for it to light up is represented in
this chart. Each of the seven strokes is to represent a digit in a
binary number, and John described the scheme as follows:
top, upper right, upper left, middle, lower right, lower left, bottom
I would have numbered them but I don't know how to count in binary
so I don't know if I've got them in the wrong order. Can somebody type
out a comma-separated or space-separated list numbering them according
to what each represents? For instance, unless I am mistaken, I think
the first row is: 
0
and the second row is:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
...I think. The last row is:
128
Then I'll remake the chart, numbered, and put it online. Then when we
discuss changes to DSO we could just refer to a character by number and
look it up to know what somebody's talking about.
-epkat

On 9/5/05, Brandon Wirick <brandon@yrick.com> wrote:

It certainly doesn't suck! Good idea on the vowels. Too bad it's
impossible to do that with only connected characters.

Maybe I can create an applet or something that generates orthographies
from a hex string. That way we can all play around with orthographies
and communicate along these lines:
"Check out this orthography: 4FA39F6..."
"Ooh, I like what you did with {ty} and {dy}, but I think it would be
better if you did this: 4FA3C96..."

I'll get on that soon, or if anyone else is itching to do it, be my guest.

mu'omi'e.uirik.

On 9/5/05, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> No doubt this image has other problems, but I tried to visualize a DSO in
> which vowels were horizontally symmetrical. Also, in this version I
> eliminated the characters made of two unattached vertical lines because
> those were a pain to write with. The red characters represent the original
> characters which were replaced. Here's the link:
>  http://www.nemorathwald.com/lojban/lcd_clock_alphabet.gif
>  Currently I'm drawing a chart of all possible arrangements of segments that
> can be in one character. I believe, but am not sure, that they are in binary
> code order. After I upload it, I'd like somebody who understands binary to
> number them in The Gimp or some such image program so we can use John's
> numbering scheme and reference the chart.
>  -epkat


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