Here’s a nice piece of 3D art where the model’s face and corset are real, but everything else is rendered. The artist (‘jfrancis‘ from Los Angeles) has also included (in the post immediately following) a description of how he achieved the effect (with PhotoShop and Maxwell). For maximum Cipher Mystery brownie points, he also included some nonsense Voynichese (such as the EVA “Klobal” at top left and bottom right, though I doubt it means anything) around the edges (what do you mean, “I’m the only person looking at the edges”?)
Having said that, his ciphertext is only Voynichese-like (or “Ruggish”, to use the technical term): “b” is a very rare letter, and he hasn’t quite – even though he does use “or” a lot – got its internal word structure nailed (uppercase doesn’t help). Perhaps he ought to play Voynich Scrabble? =:-o
Don’t say I don’t try to broaden your mind. 🙂
PS: here’s some more Voynich writing used in an “enigmatic instrument” you might also like!
Hi Nick. Cool! Yes, you broadened our mind.
If he’d wanted authenticity, he could have just taken some text from the rings of f67r1 (which looks like it inspired this) or f68v2 or f68v1. And he could have had a Voynich nymph as the lady – like Botticelli’s Venus. That really would have been interesting. 🙂
What are the symbols between the petals of the volvelle? A lot of them aren’t familiar to me.
Cheers, Dennis
f67r1 inspired this? Is that a knife-thrower’s board too? 🙂
I suspect the symbols between the petals are ‘made-up mystery’ figures, but I’d be happy to be proved wrong. 🙂
LOL This is a funny post. I enjoyed reading it.
I should have thought of using a string of real Voynich. Not sure why I didn’t. I spent a bit of time trying to get the letters to look good next to each other to my eye.
The other symbols are from the Alchemy Symbols font in the Magick collection at The Walden Font Company. waldenfont.com
As far as f67r1 influencing the piece – I was all set to say I never heard of it, but I googled it first, and in fact I have seen it before, and it was of some influence, I’m sure. I didn’t know it by that designation.