Cracking the Voynich Code 2016 weekly progress

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Semester 1 Week 1[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Contacted with partner
  • Prepared for the first meeting with supervisor
  • Searched background information about the project
  • Literature review

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Contacted with partner
  • Background information research
  • Prepared for the first meeting
  • Literature review

Semester 1 Week 2[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Literature review (the history of the Voynich manuscript, related work)
  • 1 meeting/week with partner
  • Discussion about the task allocation with partner

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Literature review
  • Discussion about the task allocation with partner

Semester 1 Week 3[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Prepared for the second meeting with supervisor
  • Organized resources
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Background research

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Prepared for the second meeting with supervisor
  • Organized resources
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Background research

Semester 1 Week 4[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Background research
  • Related work research (the history of the Voynich manuscript research)
  • Matlab code preparation

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Background research
  • Related work research
  • Matlab code preparation

Semester 1 Week 5[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Related work research
  • Matlab preparation for the Phase 1: text investigation
  • Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Related work research
  • Matlab preparation for the Phase 1: text investigation
  • Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor

Semester 1 Week 6[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Begun Matlab code for the phase 1: text investigation

• The total number of words. • The frequency of words. • The number of simple letters. • The frequency of simple letters.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Begun Matlab code for the phase 1: text investigation

• The total number of words. • The frequency of words. • The number of simple letters. • The frequency of simple letters.

Semester 1 Week 7[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Begun Matlab code for the phase 1: text investigation

• Compared the Voynich manuscript with other known languages. • Found patterns in known language digits. • Located similar patterns in the Voynich manuscript. • Searched any relationship between the patterns and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Begun Matlab code for the phase 1: text investigation

• Compared the Voynich manuscript with other known languages. • Found patterns in known language digits. • Located similar patterns in the Voynich manuscript. • Searched any relationship between the patterns and digits.

Semester 1 Week 8[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Thesis draft 1
  • Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 1

Yaxin Hu[edit]

Thesis draft 1

  • Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Begun the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Locate all the images that contains one thing that appears more than once in an image. • Number the time that things appears in each image.

Semester 1 Week 9[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Checked the Matlab code of phase 1
  • Phase 1 Matlab code modification

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Trying to search words nearby the image that may conform any digital patterns in known language digits. • Decode all the digits if the last step is success.

Semester 1 Week 10[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Begun the Matlab code for the phase 3: Marginal symbols research

• Statistics for marginal stars of each page, such as the number of marginal stars, the types of stars, the location of stars. • Extract the characters which may stand for digits from the Voynich manuscript.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Checked the Matlab code of phase 2

Semester 1 Week 11[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
  • Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Statistics the characters which are extracted in the last step, such as the occurence frequency of characters. • Make a chart according to the order of the occurence frequency of those characters. Then make a matching between characters and digits. • Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

  • Results organization

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
  • Checked the Matlab code of phase 2
  • Results organization

Semester 1 Week 12[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Thesis draft 2
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Matlab code modification for phase 3
  • Results organization

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Thesis draft 2
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Matlab code modification for phase 2
  • Results organization


Semester 2 Week 1[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Statistics the characters which are extracted in the last step, such as the occurence frequency of characters. • Make a chart according to the order of the occurence frequency of those characters. Then make a matching between characters and digits. • Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Trying to search words nearby the image that may conform any digital patterns in known language digits. • Decode all the digits if the last step is success.

Semester 2 Week 2[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Statistics the characters which are extracted in the last step, such as the occurence frequency of characters.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Trying to search words nearby the image that may conform any digital patterns in known language digits.

Semester 2 Week 3[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Statistics the characters which are extracted in the last step, such as the occurence frequency of characters.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Trying to search words nearby the image that may conform any digital patterns in known language digits.

Semester 2 Week 4[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Statistics the characters which are extracted in the last step, such as the occurence frequency of characters.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Trying to search words nearby the image that may conform any digital patterns in known language digits.

Semester 2 Week 5[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Statistics the characters which are extracted in the last step, such as the occurence frequency of characters.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Trying to search words nearby the image that may conform any digital patterns in known language digits.

Semester 2 Week 6[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Make a chart according to the order of the occurence frequency of those characters. Then make a matching between characters and digits. • Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits

Semester 2 Week 7[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Make a chart according to the order of the occurence frequency of those characters. Then make a matching between characters and digits. • Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits

Semester 2 Week 8[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Prepared the meeting with supervisor
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Make a chart according to the order of the occurence frequency of those characters. Then make a matching between characters and digits. • Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Prepared the meeting with supervisor
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits

Semester 2 Week 9[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Final thesis
  • 2016 Exhibition poster
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Final thesis
  • 2016 Exhibition poster
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits


Semester 2 Week 10[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Final thesis
  • 2016 Exhibition poster
  • Project Wiki
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Final thesis
  • 2016 Exhibition poster
  • Project Wiki
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits

Semester 2 Week 11[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Final thesis
  • 2016 Exhibition poster
  • Project Wiki
  • YouTube video
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Final thesis
  • 2016 Exhibition poster
  • Project Wiki
  • YouTube video
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits

Semester 2 Week 12[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
  • Project Wiki
  • YouTube video
  • 2016 Exhibition presentation
  • USB flash drive (all works)
  • Modified Matlab code for the phase 3: marginal symbols research

• Infer the potential relationship between characters and digits.

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting review
  • Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
  • Project Wiki
  • YouTube video
  • 2016 Exhibition presentation
  • USB flash drive (all works)
  • Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research

• Decode the potential digits

Semester 2 Week 13[edit]

Ruihang Feng[edit]

  • Final seminar
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Project Wiki
  • YouTube video
  • USB flash drive (all works)

Yaxin Hu[edit]

  • Final seminar
  • Normal meeting with partner
  • Meeting with supervisor
  • Meeting review
  • Project Wiki
  • YouTube video
  • USB flash drive (all works)
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