View source for Cracking the Voynich Code 2016 weekly progress

=== Semester 1 Week 1===

====Ruihang Feng====
*Contacted with partner
*Prepared for the first meeting with supervisor
*Searched background information about the project
*Literature review

====Yaxin Hu====
*Contacted with partner
*Background information research
*Prepared for the first meeting
*Literature review

=== Semester 1 Week 2===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*Meeting with supervisor
*Meeting review
*Literature review
*Discussion about the task allocation with partner

=== Semester 1 Week 3===

====Ruihang Feng====
*Prepared for the second meeting with supervisor
*Organized resources
*Normal meeting with partner
*Background research

====Yaxin Hu====
*Prepared for the second meeting with supervisor
*Organized resources
*Normal meeting with partner
*Background research

=== Semester 1 Week 4===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*Meeting with supervisor
*Meeting review
*Normal meeting with partner
*Background research
*Related work research
*Matlab code preparation

=== Semester 1 Week 5===

====Ruihang Feng====
*Normal meeting with partner
*Related work research
*Matlab preparation for the Phase 1: text investigation
*Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor

====Yaxin Hu====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*Thesis draft 1
*Prepared for the next meeting with supervisor
*Normal meeting with partner
*Modified the Matlab code for the phase 1

====Yaxin Hu====
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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*Meeting with supervisor
*Meeting review
*Normal meeting with partner
*Checked the Matlab code of phase 1
*Phase 1 Matlab code modification

====Yaxin Hu====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*Normal meeting with partner
*Meeting review
*Checked the Matlab code of phase 2

=== Semester 1 Week 11===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*Normal meeting with partner
*Prepared for the meeting with supervisor
*Checked the Matlab code of phase 2
*Results organization

=== Semester 1 Week 12===

====Ruihang Feng====
*Thesis draft 2
*Normal meeting with partner
*Meeting with supervisor
*Meeting review
*Matlab code modification for phase 3
*Results organization

====Yaxin Hu====
*Thesis draft 2
*Normal meeting with partner
*Meeting with supervisor
*Meeting review
*Matlab code modification for phase 2
*Results organization


=== Semester 2 Week 1===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*Normal meeting with partner
*Meeting review
*Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research
•  Decode the potential digits

=== Semester 2 Week 7===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*Normal meeting with partner
*Meeting review
*Modified the Matlab code for the phase 2: illustration research
•  Decode the potential digits

=== Semester 2 Week 8===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====
*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===

====Ruihang Feng====
*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====

*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===

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

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