Quote Originally Posted by Malashaan View Post
I've been wondering about the letters, and also whether maybe the arrangement of dots doesn't matter. It could be the combination of the letter and number of dots, regardless of position. I think the reason we're having a hard time grinding the dots is that they are all on the shape of the letter, so can't be totally uniform in placement across different letters. Maybe we just have to correct to the nearest point on the grid, but if the position doesn't matter, that problem goes away.
Perhaps what we are looking at isn't the cipher, but the key to figuring out something later.