Lettree
Lettree was the idea that motivated me to start Caligraft and Geomerative. It's a very old idea based vaguely on Kandinsky's art and on a little exercise I did in November 2004 called LetrAbstAcción.
This applet consists in a new form of text distribution in space, by redefining very simple rules, we can get a large number of interesting results.
The rule in this applet is that characters must be joined by their serifs. This means that fonts or characters without serifs will be joined randomly.
Run the calligraphy...
(while running, type your own text and press ENTER)
Video : High res (4 M) | Low res (1 M)
- Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2
- OpenGL enabled graphics card
Sourcecode: lettree.pde | .. | . | LetterSet.java
Library: geomerative
Applications : GNU/Linux | MacOS X | Windows
6 Comments
I love the reactivity when you keep a button pressed.
How can I overcome this:
“param() only works inside a web browser”
and run it from processing on my machine?
The best one in my opinion!
[…] I was inspired to create this letter and the rest of Thram by the Lettree calligraphy of the Caligraft collection. Go look at that and the other calligraphies, they’re all really interesting and are great examples of Processing used properly. Anyway, I typed in “j” twice and got something that looked like Tarm. The idea of fusing letters by their serifs reminded me of the unique letters in the Serbian and Macedonian versions of Cyrillic that are made by adding a little hook to the end of a letter and also of the diphthong ligatures of medieval latin. […]
oh wow, this is really neat! great work, really. i love calligraphy… it is truly beautiful.
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