| From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 15, 2002, 20:36 |
Siyo! I experimented with it quite a bit with similar results. One thing I tried to do was to generate alphabets that looked similar to real ones. It's fairly easy to get something to look Chinese or Arabic, but when I tried to shoot for Hindi, it was very difficult to get a top crossbar going on all the letters. And if you want something Romanesque? Forget it! They have an archive of what other people have done with radically different results. It seems that you just have to *really* know what you're doing with all those little switches. It's also better to "step" than to "evolve", because if you like something in "evolve", by the time you suspend it's already passed it by. I would like to experiment more with the program, though. Clint --- Peter Clark <pc451@...> wrote:> --- GrayWizard <dbell@...> wrote: > > The Alphabet Synthesis Machine > http://alphabet.tmema.org/ > > A fascinating bit of programming, but I question > whether it is > really anything more than a very fancy (and > impressive) squiggle > generator. For instance, I tried drawing several > shapes; a tiny "o", > like a degree symbol, a little kanji, and a cursive > B. All ended up > with similar results. True, some of the squiggles > were quite cool, but > in terms of its stated goals, it needs a little > work. > :Peter > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage > http://sports.yahoo.com/__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/