Glyph-Engine

Package Install

Installable package: python3.11 -m pip install gnosis-glyph-engine. Current release: 0.1.0a1 on PyPI. Source: Zer0pa/Glyph-Engine.

python3.11 -m pip install gnosis-glyph-engine

For full install, smoke, source, and developer commands, click here.

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00 · GNOSIS-GLYPH-ENGINE · ANCIENT SCRIPT GEOMETRY RESEARCH-READY · OWNED ARM UNTESTED Mapping Symbols Older Than Alphabets Shape-only descriptor research for ancient script · Gnosis-Glyph-Engine · gnosis-glyph-engine v0.1.0a1 · github.com/Zer0pa/Glyph-Engine Ancient inscriptions carry geometry that no one has counted at the level of a single mark. Glyph-Engine runs three off-the-shelf shape algorithms — ORB, Hu regionprops, and HOG — across a 12-glyph fixture, ten seeds deep, and reports how steady each one is. HOG is the steadiest at sigma 1.15. Re-running with the same seed gives the same numbers, bit for bit. The page does not claim to read or decipher the marks, and the in-house descriptor stays UNTESTED until two missing Indus source files are recovered.

Scope: ORB, Hu, and HOG descriptor comparison. HOG is steadiest in fixtures; owned descriptor waits on missing Indus files.

01 · THE GAP READING VS MEASURING Paleography has names for ancient marks but no shared numbers for their shape. Glyph-Engine measures the shape without claiming to read it.

02 · MARKETS ADJACENT FORECASTS Computer vision software '31 · $45.9B OCR software '30 · $22.4B Document AI '30 · $17.2B Heritage digitization '30 · $8.1B Digital humanities '30 · $3.2B Adjacent markets run on shape recognition; ancient-script geometry is the narrow, mostly unpriced corner inside them.

03 · VALUE OF MARKET $8.1B Heritage digitization '30 — the funded market where ancient-mark geometry becomes usable scholarly evidence.

04 · INSIGHT Ancient marks have a shape. Now it can be counted.

05.1 · CURRENT TECH DESCRIBED, NOT MEASURED Epigraphers and paleographers describe ancient marks by sign name, period, or catalogue entry. No common tool reports the geometry of the stroke itself, so visual arguments rest on prose and plates, not on numbers.

05.2 · OUR TECH GEOMETRY MEASUREMENT FIRST Glyph-Engine puts numbers on shape and reports how steady each number is. Three off-the-shelf algorithms — ORB, Hu regionprops, and HOG — run ten-seed sweeps over a 12-glyph synthetic fixture, with HOG at sigma 1.15 the steadiest. The same fixture and seeds are shared with the sibling Morph-Bench project. The in-house descriptor is not yet running, and nothing on this page claims to read a mark.

05.3 · BENCHMARKS BORROWED-ARM RESULTS ORB σ4.1410-seed mean Hu σ2.9510-seed mean HOG σ1.15most stable Tests17/17with sibling HOG σ 1.15 Hu σ 2.95 ORB σ 4.14 Status: The three off-the-shelf algorithms have numbers; the in-house descriptor is UNTESTED until two missing Indus source files are recovered.

06 · MEASUREMENT BORROWED-ARM SIGMA Three off-the-shelf shape algorithms read the 12-glyph fixture. The in-house descriptor is not running yet.

06.1 · COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE · 10-SEED SIGMA HOG (borrowed) σ 1.15 · most stable Hu regionprops (borrowed) σ 2.95 OpenCV ORB (borrowed) σ 4.14 Owned descriptor UNTESTED · D-06 unblocks 10-seed σ mean across borrowed ORB, Hu regionprops, and HOG over the 12-glyph synthetic fixture; lower σ means a more stable shape number. The owned descriptor has no number yet.

07 · KEY METRICS MEASURED RESULTS

07.1 · ORB ROBUSTNESS Σ 4.14 10-seed mean · borrowed OpenCV ORB

07.2 · HU REGIONPROPS Σ 2.95 10-seed mean · borrowed scikit-image regionprops

07.3 · HOG ROBUSTNESS Σ 1.15 10-seed mean · steadiest borrowed arm

07.4 · PYTEST SURFACE 17/17 17 pass with sibling · 16 pass plus 1 skip without it

07.5 · OWNED DESCRIPTOR Σ null Owned descriptor pending · D-06 is the unblock

08 · DETERMINISM PER-ARM REPLAY Seed-42 replay is per borrowed arm, not owned arms.

08.1 · WHAT DETERMINISM MEANS BORROWED BASELINES ONLY At seed 42, each borrowed ORB, Hu regionprops, and HOG arm replays identically: replay_all_identical == true. The reference-freeze SHA-256 is byte-stable across the declared 12-glyph fixture. The same fixture produces the same numbers, every run. That does not prove owned descriptors, real glyphs, or arbitrary scripts. The unit of bit-exactness is per-arm, per-seed, borrowed baselines only. Shape measurement without determinism is anecdote; determinism is the thin floor under everything else here.

08.2 · HONEST BLOCKER Honest Blocker · package_boundary_earned is UNTESTED. PyPI 0.1.0a1 is a public alpha with incomplete metadata. D-06 must retrieve scripts/indus/stroke_native_encoding.py and phase3_common.py before owned arms run. Claims stop at borrowed-baseline receipts: no release, no owned encoder, no production engine, no script understanding.

09 MARKS WITH A MEASURED SHAPE.

09.1 · THIS REPO'S AMBITION Glyph-Engine wants ancient-mark geometry to become an evidence layer that heritage researchers, paleographers, and decipherment specialists can share. The ambition is a shape vocabulary that travels between archives and journals without smuggling in a reading, so the conversation about what the marks mean can rest on what they actually look like.

09.2 · WHAT WORKS NOW Three borrowed shape arms produce stable, bit-identical numbers over a declared 12-glyph fixture today.

09.3 · WHAT'S STILL OPEN The owned descriptor and a real-glyph corpus stay UNTESTED until D-06 retrieves the missing Indus files.

09.4 · ARCHIVES · NEAR-TERM (12–24 MO) Heritage archives sort marks by shape A heritage archive curator can group thousands of unread marks by geometric similarity instead of cataloguer notes. The same descriptor numbers travel between corpora, so sorting decisions are reviewable by anyone, not stuck in one institution's house style.

09.5 · SCHOLARSHIP · NEAR-TERM (12–24 MO) Paleographers gain a measurement vocabulary A paleographer publishing a stroke-form argument can attach a sigma figure to the visual claim. Reviewers can re-run the descriptors against their own corpus and disagree on numbers instead of impressions, which moves epigraphic debate onto firmer ground.

09.6 · DECIPHERMENT DISCIPLINE · MID-TERM (24–48 MO) Shape and meaning stay separated Script-decipherment specialists working on contested scripts get a reusable shape layer that refuses to encode a reading. That keeps speculative translations from quietly leaking into descriptor metadata, which is how earlier decipherment programmes contaminated the evidence they were trying to weigh.

09.7 · TOOLING · MID-TERM (24–48 MO) Digital humanities tools share one floor A digital-humanities lab adopting Glyph-Engine baselines as a common floor can compare its custom descriptors against three well-understood arms before publishing a kernel. Comparison becomes the first step, not the last, so weak descriptors are caught before they reach a manuscript.

09.8 · METHOD · PARADIGM (48 MO+) Geometry travels across heritage domains A descriptor kernel that earns its independent boundary can move beyond ancient script into seals, pottery marks, textile motifs, and rock art. The portable object is the measurement method itself, which is what changes how heritage research builds reusable evidence.

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Install / Developer Commands Detailed

Package Install

Installable package: python3.11 -m pip install gnosis-glyph-engine. Current release: 0.1.0a1 on PyPI. Source: Zer0pa/Glyph-Engine.

python3.11 -m pip install gnosis-glyph-engine

Import smoke:

python3.11 - <<'PY'
import importlib.metadata as md
import gnosis_glyph_engine

print("gnosis-glyph-engine", md.version("gnosis-glyph-engine"))
PY

CLI smoke:

glyph-engine-ablation --help
glyph-engine-robustness --help

Install success only proves package acquisition/import. Product scope, stale PyPI state, platform limits, and blockers remain in the front-door sections below.

• Alpha package; package-boundary claims remain bounded by the front-door blockers below.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/Zer0pa/Glyph-Engine.git
cd Glyph-Engine
python3.13 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
pytest -q                          # → 16 passed, 1 skipped
python -m gnosis_glyph_engine.scripts.run_ablation
python -m gnosis_glyph_engine.scripts.run_robustness

Console scripts (after install): glyph-engine-ablation, glyph-engine-robustness.