Zompist Bboard Again

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:56 pm I have a calligraphy set that I got for Christmas a while ago that I've never used; the ink is still good so I'd like to sit down sometime soon and see how that goes.

This is something I would strongly encourage! Aside from being great fun, it’s an interesting experience to actually feel how the different tools behave in practice, and see how strongly they affect the resulting letterform.

Sorry if this is a stupid question that has already been answered in this thread somewhere, but what exactly is the meaning of the ovals/ellipses?

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:52 am Sorry if this is a stupid question that has already been answered in this thread somewhere, but what exactly is the meaning of the ovals/ellipses?

I think it’s just showing the location of the rest of the character. Same way we sometimes show Latin-script diacritics as ◌̈ ◌́ etc.

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:09 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:52 am Sorry if this is a stupid question that has already been answered in this thread somewhere, but what exactly is the meaning of the ovals/ellipses?

I think it’s just showing the location of the rest of the character. Same way we sometimes show Latin-script diacritics as ◌̈ ◌́ etc.

Oh. Thank you!

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:10 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:09 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:52 am Sorry if this is a stupid question that has already been answered in this thread somewhere, but what exactly is the meaning of the ovals/ellipses?

I think it’s just showing the location of the rest of the character. Same way we sometimes show Latin-script diacritics as ◌̈ ◌́ etc.

Oh. Thank you!

bradrn is exactly right; it shows where the basic glyph gets drawn.

CR-series

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:42 am CR-series

I don't have anything to say except I really like the look of this writing system, and appreciate the work you do on it.

It was asked of me at the Other Place whether I would be willing to show how some of the radicals were derived. I figured, since I've been working on the GR phonetic series (I want to try to get to 1 kilocharacter before I turn in for the night and it's being useful to flesh out the radical system's expanded phonotactics), I might show one as I'm coming up with it. This here's gregiŏ 'to throw at the ground, to spike, to shove downward', the phonetic for words in gre-:

GRA series

Because I seem to be a glutton for punishment…

I need to look into making the twin moons of Íröd coörbital, like Janus and Epimetheus. It’d make for some interesting historical stuff at the very least.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:41 am I need to look into making the twin moons of Íröd coörbital, like Janus and Epimetheus. It’d make for some interesting historical stuff at the very least.

In case you’re not aware of this already, keep in mind that the dramatic Wikipedia animations are in a rotating reference frame — from the usual non-rotating reference frame, it just looks like they’re orbiting on near-identical elliptical paths, and you‘d have to measure carefully to see them swapping paths.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:41 am Because I seem to be a glutton for punishment…

I see no evidence for that. Here or elsewhere.

I need to look into making the twin moons of Íröd coörbital, like Janus and Epimetheus. It’d make for some interesting historical stuff at the very least.

Interesting...I confess I think that would be a pretty hair-trigger system, falling into being trojans or horseshoe-orbits after a while...but in the meanwhile (which can easily be the lifetime of a civilization or three), I can see it working and leading the astronomers.

keenir wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:12 am

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:41 am Because I seem to be a glutton for punishment…

I see no evidence for that. Here or elsewhere.

All the math, a subject at which I am bad…

VT series



VC series

VR series



VD series



RD series



CT series



GD series

BN series



VN series



The 1'000th Caber logogram: vnuo 'thirty-six'

Logograms for divination practices, same order as here. First glyph is the "class" of divination and the subsequent six are the subdisciplines. The two forbidden methods are given by themselves at the bottom.

DN-series

JN series

GN series



XN series



BG series



VG series



TG series



DG series

RG series



QG series



JG series



Almost done with the phonetic radicals. 8 CV series and 6 CCC series (RDV, RDG, XT [= CST], CTR, CRN, CTG) to go.