Cg Guide
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Complete easy Circular Gallifreyan
Guide
Setting it together
Letters
Letters are attached to the inner part of their word circle. The first letter is at
the bottom of the word circle. Vowels are inscribed into the consonant that
precedes them. The second image shows how to write them into any
consonant's circle.
Consonants
Vowels
Words
You learned how to write single letters in a word. Now lets look at how to
arrange them. You just start at the very bottom of a word circle and add the
following letters in a counterclockwise direction. At the bottom you an
example. This sentence represents the word "Fezzes". The most bottom word
is 'F' as intended. To know if a letter is too far to the left or right, just split
the word circle in half and check if the center of the letter you want to check
is over the line.
Sentences
Once you have all your words you'll want to connect them to sentences.
There are two ways to create a sentence from the words.
In a Circular Shape
First you want to arrange the words in counterclockwise orientation like the
letters of a word. Once you've done that, just add two outer circles which is
the container for the whole sentence.
In a Linear Shape
This method is pretty straightforward. Just line up the words in the correct
order from left to right and your sentence is done.
Lines
Vowels and Consonants
Lines that originate from a vowel or consonant can either join with the line
of another consonant or vowel or just either hit the word or inner sentence
circle.
In-Word Punctuation
Lines coming from a word which represent an apostrophe or dash, should hit
the inner sentence circle so that it's clear that it's a punctuation character.
Punctuation
Lines that represent the punctuation of a whole sentence should start on the
inner sentence circle and end on the outer sentence circle.
Personal Preferences of Sizes and Thicknesses
I developed my own equations to determine the size of word, consonant,
vowel and dot circles. These equations were developed to my taste. If you
prefer to make it more random that's great to. I just prefer to add
mathematical rules so that the length of a word can be seen from the size of
the circle without knowing how to read every letter.
All of the following sizes which are fixed, are defined by millimeters in the
program Inkscape which I use to write CG (Circular Gallifreyan).
Variable definition
c = consonant width
w = word width
l = consonants count in word
v = vowels count in word
d = dot width
a = vowel width
x = letter count in word
Word size in relation to the amount of letters in it
w2 = 40 000 * l
Consonant width in relation to word width
c = w/l * (1 + l/10) * (1 + v/10)
Dot size in relation to consonant size
d1 = c/10
d2 = c/13 dn = c/13
d3 = c/17
Vowel size in relation to consonant size
a = c/7
a = w/l * (1 + l/10) / 3.5
Thicknesses
Consonants and word circles and lines thickness
3
Vowel circles thickness
1.5
Sentence circles thickness
5
Math
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