Friday, March 30, 2007

Ambigrams!..


This word would be common to people who have read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.
Ambigrams generally fall into several categories
  • Rotational
  • Mirror
  • Figure ground
  • Chain
  • Space Filling
  • 3-dimensional
  • Perceptual Shift
  • Natural


The Ambigrams that intrigue me the most are the Rotational ones

A design that presents several instances of words when rotated through a fixed angle. This is usually 180 degrees, but rotational ambigrams of other angles exist, for example 90 or 45 degrees. The word spelled out from the alternative direction(s) is often the same, but may be a different word to the initially presented form. A simple example is the lower-case abbreviation for "Down", dn, which looks like the lower-case word up when rotated 180 degrees



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Even mah name :P


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

excellent creativity.Wish I could do the same 2 mah nam3!

Mary Wittenoom said...

Thank you for such a well-written article. A pixel is referred to as being dead if it is fully dark and emits no light. They could happen following damage to the monitor. For instance, if it has tripped or collided with anything. Dead pixels come from this damage to the link between the pixel and the screen.