The Cardan grille approach to the Voynich MS taken to the next level

[julian]

The paper by Rene is inspirational! 

After reading it a couple of times, some playing around with Stolfi's Core/Crust/Mantle grammar and trying various ways of placing the gyphs within a set of co-rotating three wheels, I found that the following machine is able to account for ~93% of the words in the VMS. (I showed this in the inter-Gallows counts thread, but it's more appropriate here.)



A VMS word can be reproduced from these wheels using the following prescription:

• Select none or more glyphs from the outer ring
  
  
• Append none or one glyph from the middle Gallows ring
  
  
• Append none or more glyphs from the inner ring
  

I suppose this may be simply a pictorial representation of Stolfi's grammar? It certainly doesn't get us any further, but I throw it in anyway. I am obsessed with the notion that a few cipher wheels were used to generate the text, perhaps geared together, and perhaps with cams that rotate adjacent wheels at certain positions :-)