clickwise-ascii.md

Encoding Clickwise as ASCII

For dot glyphs, use a 1-indexed Base64 alphabet (as there is no blank dot glyph) to encode the dots; the bottom dot position represents the least significant bit:

         1         2         3         4         5         6
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+

If the glyph has more than one dot (i.e., is not one of A, B, D, H, P, or f), use Crockford's Base32 to represent which inter-dot spaces have connecting lines:

          1         2         3
01234567890123456789012345678901
0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ

For bar glyphs, use the following punctuation to represent the various bars:

|  []
.,:;!

The shorter bar glyphs used to represent Clocktalk can be represented by single quotes:

'Keep Out'

Whitespace may be represented by its ASCII counterpart.

The first utterance from Automata (p. 2) would be represented thus:

:!.,+Z.47. .A

(Although that 7 could be a 5.)