We presented at Instituto Municipal para el Fortalecimiento de la Cultura Maya and demonstrated how Ancient Maya App starts to bring the Maya language and modern technology together. Everyone enjoyed seeing how to read and write some basic words. After the presentation a woman came up intent to speak with us. She explained the app’s …
The 2.6.2 release is available on iOS and Android. The Write feature now supports numbers and a very basic text editor. You can see a demo here.
The #AncientMayaApp release I made on Friday Feb 13th crashed immediately on Android devices. It doesn’t run at all. I uploaded a fix Saturday morning at 10:20. Hopefully, Android will make that release available sometime Saturday afternoon, although they can take a day or two to process the update. The app store will show the …
The next release of the AncientMayaApp will write numbers. I used this to recreate another glyph block from Memo Kantun’s Ritual de los Bacabes. Since the app can’t write dates yet I recreated a glyph block corresponding to a ruler’s title, I believe 4-ajaw. I think (again) my main glyph doesn’t sit on the bottom …
Studying Memo Kantun’s Ritual de los Bacabes led me to a bug in the app. The image shows Memo’s “bakana”, the app’s earlier rendering, and the corrected version. In the older output, the right-side affix glyph was incorrectly oriented relative to the main glyph. This bug affected a lot of writing. Transforming and rendering affix …
I’m studying Memo Kantun’s Ritual de los Bacabes as part of ongoing work to improve the writing generated by the #AncientMayaApp. This is the first in a series of posts about how the app’s approach to ancient Maya phonetic writing is evolving. I started with a very simple word: “bina”, which appears several times in …
Here’s a YouTube video showing the “text editor” feature. Now you can click on the glyph blocks created in on the Write page to change how words are written. The image below shows “otoot” written four different ways. We have big plans for extending the text editor!
On October 27th, something exciting and unexpected happened. Someone in Mexico — someone managing about 300 Apple computers — installed the Ancient Maya App on all of them. I would love to know where this was done and help support whatever they’re working on. A school? A university? A museum? Developers get some basic activity stats from the iOS App Store. I don’t …
The Ancient Maya App, originally built for smartphone, now runs under Windows. Our first test release is in the Windows Store. A few friends are already trying it out and helping identify compatibility issues across different Windows 10 and 11 systems. Everything works except the Read feature — that fix is on the way and …
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