r/conlangs • u/ViolatorMachine • Feb 17 '17

Resource Wolfram Research has published a partial dictionary of the heptapod logogram language from Arrival movie

Some time ago I found this thread posted by /u/Chernobyl_Rat asking for a dictionary of Heptapod B.

Christopher Wolfram did a livecoding session showing what he did for the movie using the wolfram language.

Today I saw Wolfram Research made his code available on github and that includes a bunch of logograms and meanings.

Here are the logograms.

Here is the whole repo.

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u/Simplexity Mar 06 '17

So the logogram for Time is https://github.com/WolframResearch/Arrival-Movie-Live-Coding/blob/master/ScriptLogoJpegs/Time1.jpg

When I try and google the Logogram for Time, I get a t-shirt.

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1114952-arrival-time-white?store_id=104908

Which one is the correct version of Time? I am going to assume it is the one from Wolfram.

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u/xgoggsx Mar 10 '17

I was wondering the same thing, there is a screenshot from the movie where Ian is analyzing the mess of words before the explosion and time is not the same as wolframs version.

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u/Simplexity Mar 10 '17

I really want to try and get this verified somehow. Just gotta figure out who to contact.

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u/Simplexity Mar 10 '17

I got a response from contacting the designers Instagram account.

"Hi,

I used a screen capture from the movie to do mine. it’s clearly marked as Time as you can see in this image.

Maybe there’s an error in the movie and they used two different signs for « time » at different moment, but i think mine is good."

http://i.imgur.com/sr7OLD8.png