Re: [lojban] Re: Wheels in my Head

[Brandon Wirick <brandon@yrick.com>]

7SD gets in your head like an annoying song. It's a very limited
medium, but it's fun to try to come up with solutions that make
inherent, logical sense as well as provide mnemonic assistance to
people who can't help but think in culture-filtered channels.

Here's a fun challenge: design the glyphs so that all even numbers
have an even number of segments and all the odd numbers have an odd
number of segments lit. Zero is "right" because it has six segments,
but one is "wrong" because it has two segments. (While we're at it,
making unconventional but good representation systems, all glyphs
should at least span the 7SD space horizontally and vertically to
eliminate ambiguity, so the glyph for one should have some sort of
horizontal segment in it.) In your system, which obviously relies
heavily on classic 7SD digit representations, only 0, 3, 4, 5, 6, and
7 are "right" according to this challenge.

An equally valid, but somewhat less intuitive challenge, would be to
reverse the requirements: even numbers should all have an odd number
of segments (or, since there are seven total, they should all lack an
even number of segments.)

Just food. I'll try to finish up my program soon.

On 9/15/05, Christopher Zervic <zervic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/15/05, Brandon Wirick <brandon@yrick.com> wrote:
> > I really am working on the program to visualize 7SD characters in a
> > Lojban context; don't anyone think I've put that on the back-burner. I
> > have, however, come up with yet another fun and mostly useless idea. 
> > 
>  
> doi .uirik. 
>  
>  .uisai Now you've got me on the 7SD tip. I went ahead and made 7SD glyphs
> for the base-16 numbers:
>  
>  http://www.geocities.com/illinois24/base16.jpg
>  
>  Explanation:
>  
>  dau - a lower case d
>  fei - a backwards F
>  gai - greek letter gamma
>  jau - resembles an uppercase J
>  rei - the closest to an R on 7SD (lower case r would conflict with the
> gamma for gai)
>  vai - I could have used U without conflict, but I opted for a backwards 4
> instead. Looks a little like V if you squint and shake your head a little.
> -- 
> Christopher Zervic, Esq.