7.03.2005

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codexsketch
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.
I'm really fascinated with the Mixtec Codex, and have been making some cartoon sketches based on that style. (Here's one i drew the yesterday afternoon).

Speaking of a 'codex', I've been reading The Code Book by Simon Singh. Its all about cryptography. Did you know about the Caesar cipher? Its "also known as a Caesar shift cipher or shift cipher, and is one of the simplest and most widely-known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions further down the alphabet. For example, with a shift of 3, A would be replaced by D, B would become E, and so on. The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it to communicate with his generals." (wikipedia quote)