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I have no idea what the shapes below are - if they mean anything at all.
I'm searching to find out if they do. At the risk of sounding like a nut case, this is the story so far..
I have been drawing/doodling groups of these shapes for years. They are the most distinctive visual thing I have consistently produced. I have adopted one as the closest thing to a logo/visual descriptor for myself.
Google image search cannot consistently find any similar images. Once it suggested Mayan Glyphs. That’s the closest find to anything with a visual resemblance. For this reason and the lack of an accurate description, I’ve decided to refer to them as “glyphs”.
My personal "descriptor"/logo
The glyphs have a distinct set of visual similarities. These set them apart from other random mark-making. I do not think or plan which glyph to draw. It’s an intuitive activity no different from breathing or walking. When drawing the glyphs, a distinct sensation tells me if I got one “wrong”. The sensation is similar to noticing a typo or spelling error.
A crude subjective marking of glyphs with similar characteristics. The warmth of the colours indicate the "proximity" of similarities.
I’ve noticed that within each glyph, there is a linear skeleton shape. I’m unable to draw these directly. The only way to “draw” the “skeleton” is to trace out each glyph’s “skeleton”.
There are reoccurring similarities among the glyphs. A common feature is the “eye” - a circle in the centre. There are also fingers - sometimes “arms”. Yet, these figurative descriptions feel superficial. The Glyphs are not figures or human representations. They are the shapes that seemed “natural” to draw at the time.
The glyphs have an instinctive scale. They seem visually “comfortable” when fitting in a square the size of a thumbprint. Anything larger, and they become visually dominant shapes.
In the past, I drew them in what looked like “organic” or chaotic patterns/formations in the past. In the last ten years, I started arranging the glyphs into geometric groups. Now, the default is in a grid configuration with a variation into radial patterns. However the choices have an unspoken sense of decisiveness that negates all other alternative arrangements.
I have a nagging feeling that the structure, arrangements and sequence of the glyphs have some meaning. I’m sceptical that they are not a coded alphabet or language similar to claims about the Voynich manuscript. The current "rational" explanation is that The Glyphs are a type of asemic writing.
Machine Learning is the only feasible way I see for searching for patterns in The Glyphs to test my “theories”. To do that, I’ve started on a course of self-study into Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
Whether that will lead to anything doesn’t matter. The critical thing is that I went on the journey to find out.
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