Japanese Language VRML Mappings

The answer is "I don't really know." I was (and still am) hoping that by mapping a regular shape and color scheme onto a language, then feeding it a corpus (a body of representative language samples), I'd be able to spot some patterns that might not be discernable through other means.

As soon as I find a Japanese corpus in a format I can use (or easily modify) I'll let you know if I spot anything.

Japanese lends itself to this type of exploration very well: a limited number of possible sounds that map directly onto their normal "text" representations and no strange irregularities in this mapping. The current shape/color mapping is completely arbitrary and will probably change.