Cistercian manipulator

Description

This program was created to help solve the second enigma of "Le Tresor de Gisor" treasure hunt.

Cistercian numbers are a numeral system that was used by the Cistercian monks in the Middle Ages. It use a set of lines to represent numbers from 1 to 9999.

The enigma has Roman numerals and a Cistercian number. We assumed that we needed to convert the Romans numerals to Arabic numerals and then to Cistercian numbers and assemble the glyphs to form some word or number.

It turned out to be a very wrong assumption which was invalidated by the author of the treasure hunt.

You can use it for other enigma that may use this mechanism.

Requirements

Docker

Installation

make install

Usage

You can customize the .env.local file to alter the design of the glyphs.

Generate all Cistercian numbers from 1 to 9999

make generate

Playground

make merge

Alternatively if you have imv installed you can run the following command to generate the numbers then view them in a gallery;

make merge-view

Local CI

make cc

Example output

Difference

Difference truncated

Side by Side unmerged

Side by Side unmerged truncated

Side by Side merged

Side by Side merged truncated

Multi line merged

Multi line unmerged

Multi line shift unmerged full space

Multi line shift unmerged half space

Multi line shift merged full space

Multi line shift merged half space