okay crazy idea. What if the order of those symbols is a stack system, translating into morse code? Going from left to right, depending on the stack breaks, how it translates to dots/dashes/spaces. Keep in mind that the overall symbol is a 3x4 square, and a break is every blank space from this square. I'm super bored, so my first basic translation system was based on the first three layers, going from the top down, based off of the center column. The top layer decided the number of characters, and the second two layers decided if it was a dot, a space, or a dash. Two dots in the two bottom layers means a dash, one means a dot, and no dots means a space. What did I get from this? M L L E E