Petra Sancta is a centuries old method for the representation of heraldic/vexillological colours in binary black and white graphics.
Fx. red is vertical lines and blue is horizontal lines. http://www.fotw.net/flags/heraldry.html#psm -Herman John Cowan skreiv: > > Sampo Syreeni scripsit: > > > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > > > > >As *characters*? Why? > > > > Naval signalling ones perhaps aren't. > > I looked at the image (less than ideal) at > http://www.fortknoxxjewelry.com/store/myname/images/1177_l.jpg > and fed it through the Gimp to strip out color information > (specifically, Image/Colors/Desaturate followed by Image/Colors/Threshold, > taking the 127 default, which leaves stark black and white). > > The only remotely confusable letters are H and K, I think, though > other people with better visual imagination may wish to check this > conclusion. > > In any event, this is plainly a letter-by-letter cipher for the basic > Latin alphabet (A-Z), and the fact that single letters or combinations > may be used as codes for cross-linguistic concepts is of no more > interest to a character encoding standard than that "ABALC" can mean > "Abandon all claims" in any of various natural languages. > > -- > John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com > I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_ -- Herman Ranes Høgskolen i Sør-Trøndelag Avdeling for teknologi Telefon +47 73559606 Institutt for elektroteknikk Telefaks +47 73559581 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> N-7004 TRONDHEIM http://www.hist.no/~herman/ NOREG