![]() ![]() In the final movie, the screen visuals are a mixture of ones Christopher created, ones derived from what he created, and ones that were put in separately. The movie-makers were giving Christopher raw data, just like in real life, and he was trying to analyze it. Here are some pictures apparently showing the code used to analyse the writings and other patterns related to aliens:Īccording to Stephen Wolfram, Christopher Wolfram (who coded all this stuff) just received the paintings from the creative staff and analysed them like a real linguist would: We’ve got a list of alien landing sites what’s the pattern? We’ve got geometric data on the shape of the spacecraft what’s its significance? We’ve got alien “handwriting” what does it mean? basic strategy was simple: just ask “if we were doing this for real, what analysis and computations would we be doing?”. They all make sense.”Īnd then the Wolfram people stepped in and brainstormed how all this could be made to look all sciency: “There’s 71 used in the final version of the movie, but we created over 100. “We created a dictionary, a logogram bible,” said. So the actual language was invented without the science: Vermette and his team assigned meaning to the inky tendrils that project from each ring, developing a dictionary of 100 symbols. ![]() Then the creative team made up a dictionary of those inky blots: The next morning, Vermette came downstairs to find 15 inky logograms on the kitchen table. Then one night, Vermette’s wife, artist Martine Bertrand, offered to sketch some ideas. ![]() He was dissatisfied with his own work, so his wife, Martine Bertrand, helped him by designing 15 sketches. It appears that the alien language was initially bound to be created by Patrice Vermette, the production designer. There's a series of tweets by the writer/producer Eric Heisserer, which explain the creative process briefly. Some background information about the creative process Certain elements of those logograms have a defined meaning, that they share across different logograms. To summarise, it appears that the logograms were hand-made by the creative team. That way you will be able to download the stream (1.4 Gigabytes). One workaround for this is to create an account, and start a free PRO trial. I guess I have to retract my previous statement about Wolframs, though they could have made all this more accessible.ġ: It's supposed to be available at the link, but it didn't start to play for me. The code for the stream, along with 38 logograms with their meanings, can be found at GitHub, licensed with CC-BY-NC 4.0. Update: I have contacted the guys at Wolfram Foundations, and they responded. ![]()
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