Links and Resources

The Book of Woo Itself

• The original strip: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/07/29/0500-the-book-of-woo/
• Larger versions of the individual pages:
  • page 1
  • page 2
  • page 3
  • page 4
• A follow up post by novil: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/07/21/the-book-of-woo-revisited/

Other appearances of the Book-of-Woo glyphs

The characters from the Book-of-Woo appear in several other comics:

• Sandra and woo speedrun

Discussion Forum

To date, pretty much all discussion regarding the decrypting efforts have taken place in the comment thread for the original comic post (http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/07/29/0500-the-book-of-woo/).

Ciphertext Tools

• Cipher Tools -- A web-based collection of cipher encoding/decoding utilities for a variety of known ciphers, as well as a couple of related analysis/manipulation tools.
• Jamie has also created a Cypher Replacement Tool (Windows EXE), which can be used to play around with different character substitutions.

Data Analysis Tools

• IPython is an interactive environment with a wide array of tools for coding, data manipulation, and visualization used by many in the academic and research communities (in particular, check out the IPython Notebook functionality).
• Plotly is a web-based (free) tool for quickly creating full-featured and interactive graphs and visualizations from almost any data.
• Character and word counter with frequency statistics calculator

Fonts

• Foogod has created the WooGlyphSans OpenType font for rendering Book of Woo symbols. (It uses the same character mapping used by the Foogod transliteration.)

In Other Media

• http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2013/07/29/sandra-and-woo-do-the-voynich-the-book-of-woo - Some initial observations on the cipher by Nick Pelling, a cipher enthusiast, blogger and author of a book on the Voynich manuscript
• http://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2013/08/11/verschlusselungsratsel-als-kunst-das-buch-des-woo/ - Report in German on the cipher by Klaus Schmeh, a cipher enthusiast, blogger and author of several books on ciphers
• Extensive section in a great book by Craig Bauer [1]