About Classic Bittic
Chapter 1:
What Is Bittic
Bittic was a lingua franca used by a spacefaring civilization that inhabited the space around a planet called Iris approximately 1,000 years after humanity’s exodos from Earth. Classic Bittic is the most prominent form that spanned most of humanity’s habitation of Iris and her moons.
The scene depicts a ringed yellow planet in space with stars behind it. The planet has a storm system on it which resembles a red eye.
It was not a spoken language. Instead, it used alternating high and low frequency pulses to represent pixels in an ideographic message. Usually, the high frequency pulses (represented by white pixels or “1”) carried meaning while the low frequency pulses (represented by black pixels or “0”) did not.
Every 4-by-4 ideograph or “glyph” must have one “1” in every row or column In other words, rows or columns containing all “0” were not allowed.
Examples of what is and isn't a valid glyph are shown. The first one on the left is valid. All the others are not.
Glyphs were composed into “messages” whose total number of pulses had to be a semiprime with a border to aid in deciphering.
Shown are a string of 121 white and black pixels representing an encoded message in Bittic. Below that is an 11-by-11 black-and-white image of the previous message "decoded".
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