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Re: Re: spiral cipher

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  • Subject: [mg55828] Re: [mg55777] Re: spiral cipher
  • From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 05:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
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I understood the problem very differently:

dat = (ToCharacterCode["i love apples and cats"] /. (32 -> Sequence[])) - 96;
right = {1, 0}; north = {0, 1};
Show@Graphics@Line@FoldList[
     Plus,
     {0, 0},
     dat*PadRight[{}, Length@dat, {right, north, -right, -north}]]

Bobby

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 03:11:05 -0400 (EDT), dh <dh at metrohm.ch> wrote:

> Hi zak,
> here a short solution:
> get some data:
> dat = ToCharacterCode["i love apples and cats"];
> calculate the spiral
> res = {};
> Fold[(AppendTo[res, {#1 + {#2[[1]], 0}, #1 + {0, #2[[2]]}, #1 +
>     {-#2[[3]], 0}, #1 + {0, -#2[[1]]} } ]; {0, -#2[[1]]} ) & , {0, 0} ,
> Partition[dat, 4] ];
> and draw it:
> Show[Graphics[Line[Flatten[res, 1]]]];
>
>
> zak wrote:
>> spiral cipher
>> suppose i have the string "i love apples and cats"
>> the sentence composed from 18 letters. we will neglect space letter.
>> if we give to every letter a value which depend on the english alphabet such as:
>> a=1; b=2 ; c=3; d=4;...; i=9;...; l=12 ...
>> now i pick the letters one by one:
>> I=9  plot 9 units to the right
>> L=12  plot 12 units to the north
>> O=15  plot 15 units to the left
>> V=22  plot 22 units to the south
>> E=5  plot 5 units to the right
>> and so on...
>>
>> this will create a messy spiral but it will represent our string.
>> we may dream to see some patterns in poets or similar texts.
>> i hope someone may have an idea about how to draw this messy spiral
>> cipher using mathematica
>> we will see if the letters of some texts will crawl to some
>> directions, or it will clutter arround the center point
>> and if someone could construct a text wich when spiralling it will
>> crawl to the north as an example. or may plot a bird figure.
>> regards
>>
>> zak
>>
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-- 
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