infodump about something I made a while ago incoming read it if u have time to lose
hi hello Im a random person with a special interest in codes and ciphers and a few years ago I got so damn bored in class I started making up stories, that I've now completely given up on, about a secret society that used drawings and motifs to comunicate to their members that lived amongst humans
called it the Tree code but honestly if anyone has better idea give them to me I suck at naming shit
this code works by drawing trees, one tree being a word and the branches the letters
these are very simple way to draw these branches but they are very customizable what maters is the number of points
as you can see there are left letters and right letters the point of which is to reduce the number of branches by combining left and right letters that are next to each other (even if they are in the wrong order u just switch them)
YOU CANNOT COMBINE TWO LETTERS THAT AREN'T NEXT TO EACH ONTHER ORIGINALY
as an exemple have the watermark I put on most of my art
now a big thing about this code is decoys in order to throw off anyone trying to decode these messages
for words it's simple enough, real words have 3 distinct roots, decoys have any other number
speaking of numbers, in the original lore the society also had a bunch of scientist and mathematicians that would also code their work so numbers and math symbols also needed coding
math and numbers, unlike the trees and punctuation that mostly stay on the ground, are designed to be drawn in a sky setting with constelations as symbols
these also have decoys
now there are 3 ways of using this code: quick, casual, formal
so like the trees, clouds need to have 3 distinct bumps to be a number (exept for the square root thingy which can be any number)
quick is very simple, no real sentences, just key words, no use of punctuations and shorten words as much as possible
basically just was is needed to convey the message and nothing more
for exemple a message hidden as a street mural
first you find the decoys
than u decode
or perhaps on a more sinister note
what a happy picture
what joy
now casual uses more proper sentences, still shorten words when u can
these are more for general messages that requires more details
for exemple messages hidden as a motif on a magazine/journal
or for everyday use within the society space because what was once just a way of hidding messags became an important part of their culture, now most place within the society's homes uses both code and english
the last use, formal, is mostly used for long ass texts such as history texts and research (not making an exemple of this one)
these tend to not bother with decoys and use proper wording and punctuation which leads to havins to use long word trees
which, yes, do look a bit weird but these texts are important and already well hidden so there isn't much use to make it not look like code
anyway this was a breakdown of the code I made in high school hope u enjoyed this infodump I really needed to put this all down into one place
just realized i forgot the punctuation and other symbols
these don't have decoys thankfully
