2010-02-28

noisecode: interlingual chromosomes

There is an analogy between alphabets and DNA code in terms of how information is encoded with a closed set of certain variables. This can be observed in noisecode.

After filtering text through noisecode.en and noisecode.pl I found out that some patterns can be distinguished in which noises indicate various letters according to language code. After investigating the particular case of English-Polish noisecode relationship I produced what can be seen as 'noisecode interlingual chromosomes'.



There is 14 noisecode.en-pl chromosomes of varied length. Two types of noisecode chromosomes can be distinguished:
• loop chromosome—in which characters occurring in both languages form a closed interchanging path;
• open chromosome—in which opening and closing characters are specific to one of the alphabets only.

The general rule here is: the more chromosomes there is and the shorter they are—the better the transcription from one language via noisecode to the other. The most straightforward transcription depending on many short chromosomes can be produced by languages that have the least specific characters possible and the smallest number of digraph/trighraph/etc. rules.