Introduction

I was interested in Genuary in 2023, and did some of the challenges.

Glitch Art #genuary3

My laptop is too buggy to succeed. Please advise.

Steal Like An Artist #genuary6

This is about submission, terror, insubordination, alignment. Notice how some people are not properly aligned, while some other are missing. It is heavily inspired by, and a tribute to the work on terror by León Ferrari, e.g., mesas tables.

#genuary7 @jeantonique

Using the fantastic palette from You by Jean Tonique. Lava lamp inspired as well.

Aesemic #genuary14

Tribute to @culturaltutor.

The Muranichs is the most famous and puzzling manuscript collection. Thousands of cryptographers and code breakers, known as "Muranichers", have unsuccessfully tried to decipher them. But do you know their history?

The modern history of the Muranichs starts in 1800, during the Second Italy Campaign (1799-1800). When leaving Genoa, letting the Austrian troops enter the city, general Masséna took with him whatever he could, following a long-established tradition.

This included a large trunk, full of manuscripts, found in the undergrounds of the Doria-Spinola palace.

Back in Paris, the trunk was opened and the manuscripts were tediously sorted out by Louvre scholars. Among countless wine invoices, they found some very strange manuscripts, which immediately caught their attention.

Coming back from the Egyptian Campaign, Napoléon Bonaparte, who was still at that time only a general, was shown the manuscripts. It is recorded that he was amazed and kept one of the largest manuscripts for himself, which was never regained.

But other similar manuscripts were soon found in the Louvre's secret collections.

They had been stolen by French spies sent by Louis XIV in Murano to find out the secrets of the glassmakers but were never deciphered. It is believed that these letters were used by Murano glassmakers to secretly communicate, thus the "Muranichs" naming.

Anyway, the Louvre scholars did not manage to make any meaning from these manuscripts. It is said that Champollion himself spent decades on it before switching to a more trivial task.

Today the Muranichs are still kept in Louvre's secret collections along with the Iron Mask and some remaining parts of the Amber Room.

Thousands of amateur codebreakers continue to try to reveal their secret. Yet we don't even know in which direction to hold the letter, and if the canes are used to identify the recipient, the sender, or are a part of the content of the message.

About Pandelune

About the author

I am Pandelune, the author of Orthogone, Murano Fantasy and Reverie.

As a teen, I was fascinated by the Demoscene, and by computer art in general, especially ray tracing.

When I was in high school, computers were not connected to the internet. I used to develop random based art using whatever language was available on these computers, and let it run for hours, just to impress whoever passed by. Think of random ASCII art. I'm in love with computer graphics and random numbers since then.

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