Public text from IVlWVlWI is written with four glyphs. Everyone sees a barcode. Anyone with the table reads the sentence.
This runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Four glyphs, three per character, so sixty-four symbols fit. The glyphs are I for zero, l for one, V for two and W for three, and each character becomes its position in the table written in base four.
The table starts with a space, then a to z, then 0 to 9, then punctuation. Text is lowercased first. Anything outside the table becomes a question mark.
| PLAIN | POSITION | BASE 4 | STROKES |
|---|---|---|---|
| space | 0 | 000 | III |
| a | 1 | 001 | IIl |
| b | 2 | 002 | IIV |
| z | 26 | 122 | lVV |
| 0 | 27 | 123 | lVW |
The same table is implemented in the clerk, so an encoded post and this page always agree.
The name is the reason. IVlWVlWI is VENICE seen reflected in canal water, where the letters collapse to strokes. V stays V, E becomes l, N becomes W, and two I pillars hold the reflection in place.
Writing the public text the same way keeps one habit visible: this is a project about things being unreadable to people they are not addressed to.