May Art Challenge - Klaus

[137th Gebirg]

Since it's going around in a ring, the character alignment is uncertain. Perhaps the "on" character is an "O" and the "off" character is a dash ("-"), hmmm?

 

[Albertese]

It almost seems to me that the Bynar script from the episode is meant to convey a longer string of bits into a single character. It seems like each figure is comprised of four positions for quarter circles, four positions for large dots, five positions for smaller dots an the option to connect adjacent figures with usually a thin line but sometimes a thick line or no line. If each of these positions represents a single bit, then there could be maybe 8 to 12 or more bits per single figure. Maybe more if the connective lines serve some mathematical (perhaps logarithmic?) function? Of course, they could just be their version of punctuation...

--Alex

 

[Solarbaby]

excellent idea

 

[DredZed]

I've been trying to figure out a decent way to translate that Bynar script into binary ever since Klaus put that link up. Its a lot more complicated than you'd think just by looking at it. Each character could easily represent two bytes or more.

I'm determined now to make some sort of sense out of it.

 

[Klaus]

While I look forward to a comprehensive Bynar grammar, I'm going to assume you guys won't have it done by midnight.

So here's a Bynar text version, with the characters representing not 1 and 0 but a pair of related concepts which summarize the ideals of the family they represent... like the words of each family in Game of Thrones, to loop back to the inspiration for this month's challenge. These would be stylized versions and thus no connecting lines, which I'm assuming demonstrate connections between concepts.

I'm thinking something like "Loyalty" and "Perseverance" in this case, I'll decide and get a final version off by midnight after work tonight.

 

[Albertese]

The scale change gives the flat surface a trippy sense of depth which I really like.

--Alex