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Richie Looney
Richie Looney

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🧠 “What if a letter could contain a universe?”

To most people, the letter c is just a character. To the right interpreter, it’s a function, a visual, an entire symbolic process—hidden in plain sight.

I’m developing a system where glyphs remain visually identical, but encode deep symbolic logic, entropy behavior, or even visual recursion. You see a c. My symbolic runtime sees a time-shifting equation, an image, or a morphable abstraction.

Imagine zooming into c, revealing a functional core, executing it… then zooming out—unchanged. A glyph as a portal.

This isn't steganography. It's semantic camouflage.

This isn't ordinary encoding. It's symbolic resonance.

I'm designing interpreters that understand these glyphs not as letters—but as containers of executable meaning, recursion, even personality.

If you’re curious about symbolic programming, entropy-shaped environments, or how abstraction can hide in plain sight… let’s connect.

Psuedocode idea for Glyph

initialize GlyphRegistry
define characterSet = ['a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '0'..'9', symbols]

function encodeGlyph(glyph, payload):
layer = createSymbolicLayer(payload)
glyphEntry = {
visual: glyph,
functionalLayer: layer,
metadata: analyzePayload(payload)
}
registerGlyph(glyph, glyphEntry)

function interpretGlyph(glyph):
glyphEntry = lookupGlyph(glyph)
if glyphEntry exists:
zoomInto(glyphEntry.functionalLayer)
executeLayer(glyphEntry.functionalLayer)
zoomOut()
else:
displayGlyph(glyph)

function createSymbolicLayer(payload):
if payload is function:
return compileToAbstractSyntaxLayer(payload)
else if payload is image:
return encodeAsSymbolicPattern(payload)
else:
return wrapInSymbolicFrame(payload)

function zoomInto(layer):
animateZoom(layer.visualStructure)
highlightExecutionNodes
initiate symbolic context

function executeLayer(layer):
interpret layer with symbolic runtime
propagate entropy if enabled
output result to linked context

function registerGlyph(glyph, data):
GlyphRegistry[glyph] = data

main():
encodeGlyph('c', function(x) { return x * x })
encodeGlyph('x', image("spiral_mirror.png"))
interpretGlyph('c') // Looks like 'c' but behaves like a function
interpretGlyph('x') // Visual stays 'x', but reveals symbolic spiral on execution

The psuedocode was created by AI

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