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> > Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> > > What does the last figure represent?
> Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> wrote:
> > It has the same topology and lengths as the first figure,
> > but with the bends straightened (and the angles equalized;
> > but that's not so important).
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Yes, it has, but yet it is virtually unrecognizable; and there are
> lots of examples of letters that are topologically equivalent and
> yet different in real-world scripts. . . .
> There is more to a letter shape than topology and relative lengths of
> the legs; bends and turns (and in many scripts, spatial orientation)
> are just as important . . . .
I do not propose to use the second figure as a substitute for the first
(or for the nine other figures, not counting rotations, with the same
branching): I seek ways to distort the second toward the first,
smoothly.
Perhaps only another math-freak would understand.
--
Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/
"Don't try to plan me or understand me;
I can't stand to be understood" -- The Turtles