Is this an alien alphabet, and is there a secret decoder ring for it? Maybe it's a syllabary, like Katakana. Maybe it's a series of ideograms, like Chinese characters. How could we tell which? Or, just possibly, it's something so alien that we don't even have a category for it.
We are literate, so we are predisposed to believe that anything with this combination of regularity and disorder has to mean something. My fingers want to type "symbol", but to call something a symbol is to assume that it has a particular kind of meaning. Maybe the glyphs are asemic writing, decorative but meaningless. How could we tell?
The glyphs were inspired by my non-periodic graph paper. I was designing a favicon, and with the limitation of 16 by 16 pixels, I wasn't able to express the idea of a sudoku, so I went with Plan B.
I realized that my favicon was one of a number of variations. Well, of course, let's generate them all and see what they look like. Let's put them next to each other in different combinations and see what happens.
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Looks like an early, and aberrant, form of Proto-Glyphylian to me.
Mainstream scholars have long believed that the Faviconian Civilization ended when it fell upon its own icon, leading inevitably to fatal puncture wounds of the cerebrostylus.
Revisionists, however, contend that the stylus, in its cerebro form or otherwise, simply wasn't important enough by the time Proto-Glyphylia developed to be fatal to an entire, if limited, civilization if damaged.
They contend that Glyphylia fell largely due to inherent conflicts within the body politic: rivalies exacerbated by the usurper Shrubb XLIII after the interegnum known to Truther Historians as Camelot II and to Realist Historians as the Klin Tonian Obnoxiate.
In any case, Proto-Glyphylian can be read right to left, left to right, bottom to top (and its reverse, of course) but perhaps makes the most cogent statement when simply stared at until Oneness is achieved. Or Twoness, if you prefer. Even Threeness, but that must be done discretely as it is banned in some polities.
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