[Trinil Shell © VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
Let's encode a plaintext or a ciphertext in ternary (ASCII/Unicode to ternary) and represent it with a writing system that replaces 0 by \, 1 by |, 2 by / (or for the balanced ternary −1 by \, 0 by |, +1 by /).
Let's call it SlaTer (Sla-sh Ter-nary) code.
A writing system visually reminiscent of Trinil Shell (deliberate scratchings by Homo Erectus, 500 000 BC), Engraved Ochre from Blombos Cave (the first Homo Sapiens information object, 75 000 - 100 000 BC), Cro-Magnon engravings (the most ancien human notation techniques from 30 000 BC - e.g Blanchard plaque or later Aurignacian and Magdalenian plaques) and cuneiform writing (the first known language writing system emerged in ancient Sumer in form of wedge-shaped impressions and carvings, 3000 BC).
Three simple inclinations of the same slash are similar to three orthogonal states of an electron's spin in qutrits (quantum trits with 3 possible states compared to qubit's 2 states). Qutrit is a first next step after qubit in quantum computing architectures that are thought to evolve in the future from qubits to qutrits and then to many dimensional qudits (d-level quantum systems) that can revolutionize the compilation of multi-qubit gates. This way this ternary writing system is also an example of possible data representation and language for future quantum computers.
SlaTer was initially created for the PostPost project. More about it in ---> PostPost
PostPost cards with their low resolution demonstrate the legibility advantage of SlaTer – a single element data transmission protocol. It can potentially be applicable for qudits with the same slash pivoted in infinite number of degrees.
Quantum computing is going to resurrect ternary computers that already existed and represented many advantages. They were less competitive to binary only due to the available technological solutions at their times - like ternary ferrite-diode cells versus binary transistors in case of Nikolay Brusentsov and Sergei Sobolev and their Setun computer in 1958, or manual operation complexity in case of Thomas Fowler and his wooden calculating machine in 1840.
It also suits well the representation of biocomputing information -
the positive and negative elicited non-spontaneous electrical spikes from brain organoids or the absence of elicited electrophysiological activity.
More about it in ---> MindWare
First SlaTer example on blockchain is "hello, world" ---> on MagicEden