Septaglyphs

[PsyHam]

Hey nice!  That's the first line of the Chant of the YuYu, isn't it?  Thanks for reposting the septaglyphs guide.    Lemme take a stab at some glyphs...



Did I do it right?  My hand's a little shaky 

[Tophatwonder]

Ok, thanks for the link, ill be sure to fix that soon.

Edit: fixed, hopefully everything is done correctly and is readable. 

i don't know why but imageshack messes up the image. 

PsyHam:
well i couldn't understand the first one, had to many letters in in, how do you do the space inbetween the the words? for example: "dmf dms" meaning: morning.

this is what i got out of the last 5.
fly through prefix perfect/superlative lose forest

[chluaid]

hey PsyHam, your glyphs are great! Love the little swirl for the double syllable.. I might even use that myself

My interpretation:
Faeries fly through lost forest

Looks like you're having no trouble grasping the grammaticals! nice work.
Your first glyph is good but the s-curve, while on the correct side of the centre point needs to be drawn the other way. S-curves should first move away from the centre point, like you did in the third glyph (tml). Here's the correction:



Tophat, I had no trouble deciphering but not sure I'm interpreting. Literally it says:
I enjoy this talk who greeting

your glyphs are all good too except the 4th one. The stroke to L should be an s-curve on the other side, like so:



For dmf dms (early day), just write them as separate glyphs. No need to combine them.
Nice zombie btw lol


want some serious practise? Here's the Yuyu Chant in septaglyphs. Feel free to cheat by cross-referencing with this.
There are a number of advanced glyphs here but you shouldn't have any trouble seeing how they work.

Need help deciphering? Beginner's version here.

[PsyHam]

Ah, thanks for the tip on the s-curves!  I had originally wanted to use some glyphs to make "hidden forest" instead of "lost forest," but couldn't find the word "hide" in the dictionary.  Later I did find "conceal" which probably would have worked, but lost forest sounds ok too 

I had a bit of trouble reading the Chant of the YuYu glyphs, but after cheating a little I figured it out!  It looks like the smoothing settings in Flash are making a couple of the curved lines look straight, such as the last glyph in the second stanza (mrr) and the third glyph in the third stanza (rdmm).

[chluaid]

yeah.. damn Flash smoothing! I noticed that mrr had been straightened out but decided to leave it. After all, if you remember that there's only one straight line in any glyph, you can figure it out. Still, I might fix that and upload the image again.

btw, if you ever have trouble finding an exact word in the dictionary, try looking for its opposite. For example, for 'hide' you could look up 'reveal'. Opposites are generally backwards, as you probably know already, so:
reveal (rsf) < - > conceal (fsr)

[Tophatwonder]

UPDATED
here is another one,
 I don't understand why the picture gets all scratched up after getting it uploaded to imageshack, its pretty annoying.

[chluaid]

Your glyphs are looking better Tophat, great work on the third one
Some of your curves still need work.. for example, your 'dm' glyphs have s-curves, when they shouldn't. Same with 'mdr'.. there should be no s-curve there. Remember that an s-curve is only used when you skip two, like you have in your first and last glyphs. Your last s-curve has a slight directional error but don't worry about that for now.. it's just good that you remembered to make an s-curve there. I've drawn over with corrections for you in yellow:



tf l mfs rmr
mdr r dm lt
dlt rm dm tlm


(little?) the storyteller from old
and you can find what you seek

I'm wondering if your first word should be tff (follow), rather than tf (a little). If so, the glyph should have a small circle to make a double 'f'.

[Tophatwonder]

yeah it says "follow" at the first glyph. and thanks, i'm trying to get curves and such sorted out.
sorry i forgot to put the little circle at the end of the first glyph, my bad.

[Tophatwonder]

Ok, this time i tried out a bunch of diffrent things, i found a page on google with the yuyu blinking its eyes to translate a message and decided to make one.
sorry if i destroyed what a yuyu looks like. 

so there are 3 messages in this little flash.
<a href="http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=symboool.swf" target="_blank">http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=symboool.swf</a>
DECHIPHER!
well i posted it and i can see it on imageshack but here, its a white box.
hopefully it works for you guys.

if not here is the link
http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=symboool.swf

[chluaid]

here's what I got:

glyphs: lft msm t drf drt df rtdr
begin time is short, make it last

colours: srdr lt lrl fr df tflt
no-one can know when it ends (pl.)

eyes: fsr smsl
hide words

great work man
I couldn't quite understand what you meant by "good is short" (ms t drf). Eventually though, I realised that you left out a stroke, you must have meant 'time' (msm) instead of 'good' (ms).
Also you've used the plural 'ends' (tflt), but I think the word you meant to use was a present tense of ending, such as "it ends now", as opposed to "I have split ends". The word you're looking for here though is simply 'end' (tfl).

[Tophatwonder]

thanks,
i really got to work on remembering to double check my work, cant believe i missed that.
i like doing the colors too, they are easy to conceal in anything.

[Tophatwonder]

<a href="http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sybb.swf" target="_blank">http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sybb.swf</a>
here is another little message, the septagon (or whatever kinda shape that is) isn't originally around them, so you can test how well you translated them, however; the septagon is drag and dropable! (whoa! holy crap! no way!) it is true go ahead and enjoy lol. 

hopefully it works.
if not then here: have no idea why but i just can't see it, im useing internet explorer and firefox  and both i don't see anything.
http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sybb.swf

[giraffesareburning]

Okay, this is my attempt:


Can anyone tell what it says?

[chluaid]

Hi giraffes, here's what I got.. the curves are good but I'm afraid it doesn't hold up too well in translation

(trt) (tt) (ffm) (lrd) (?)
fire mistrusted animal (uhm..)


Context tells me "mistrust" is probably not what you meant for your third glyph. The fifth glyph looks like you've joined two together, which is generally a no-no. Looking at it, here's a couple of guesses:

rtd tft (after water)

rtftd (<no translation>)
I'm pretty sure you meant rtstd (necks), considering our discussion on (frd rtstd) giraffes

[Tophatwonder]

been a while, i don't want this thread to fade into the dark.
there ye go!

hopefully all is in order, i didn't know about the last one.