ternary

Full context is discussed in this blog post - Hidden Messages and an Optimal Ternary Scarf

But the gist of it is - find a way of translating text into a base 3 string such that the result is 'aesthetically pleasing'

There are three scripts, which feed into each other:

1. processes an input text to generate n-gram frequencies (2-gram by default)
2. using the frequencies, generate a mapping of letters to base3 triples
3. use the generated mapping to translate an input text into a base 3 string

The format for the generate mappings is a string of the alphabet such that the first character maps to 1, the second to 2, etc.

example

$ python3 count_ngrams.py frankenstein.txt -o bigrams.json

$ python3 generate_mapping.py bigrams.json 
kvughlecjitpzyodbxrnawsmfq:0.6686863032384452

$ echo "Hello, World!" | python3 encode.py - -m kvughlecjitpzyodbxrnawsmfq -s" "
012 021 020 020 120 000 211 120 201 020 121 000