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The movie-makers were giving Christopher raw data, just like in real life, and he was trying to analyze it.

 

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In the final movie, the screen visuals are a mixture of ones Christopher created, ones derived from what he created, and ones that were put in separately. Occasionally one can see code. Like there’s a nice shot of rearranging alien “handwriting”, in which one sees a Wolfram Language notebook with rather elegant Wolfram Language code in it. And, yes, those lines of code actually do the transformation that’s in the notebook. It’s real stuff, with real computations being done.

 

_{from Wolfram's blag}

The movie-makers were giving Christopher raw data, just like in real life, and he was trying to analyze it.

. . .

In the final movie, the screen visuals are a mixture of ones Christopher created, ones derived from what he created, and ones that were put in separately. Occasionally one can see code. Like there’s a nice shot of rearranging alien “handwriting”, in which one sees a Wolfram Language notebook with rather elegant Wolfram Language code in it. And, yes, those lines of code actually do the transformation that’s in the notebook. It’s real stuff, with real computations being done.

_{from Wolfram's blag}

There's also related question on Mathematica SE (hat tip to @Rand al'Thor), that allows one to generate similar looking stuff. Though it doesn't create the actual logograms used in the film, I'd say they look pretty close:

The generating part:

There's a related question on Mathematica SE - finding which we owe to @Rand al'Thor - that allows one to generate similar looking stuff. Though it doesn't create the actual logograms used in the film, I'd say they look pretty close:

Update: I have contacted the guys at Wolfram Foundations, and they responded. The code for the stream, along with 38 logograms) can be found at GitHub, licensed with CC-BY-NC 4.0. I guess I have to retract my previous statement about Wolframs, though they could have made all this more accessible.

Update: I have contacted the guys at Wolfram Foundations, and they responded. The code for the stream, along with 38 logograms with their meanings, can be found at GitHub, licensed with CC-BY-NC 4.0. I guess I have to retract my previous statement about Wolframs, though they could have made all this more accessible.