{"id":37,"date":"2006-02-20T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-02-20T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:15:52","slug":"hacking-the-alphabet-sketchy-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/hacking-the-alphabet-sketchy-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the alphabet, sketchy-style."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caligraft.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"caligraft_example.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog\/images\/caligraft_example.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a project after my own heart.  Ricard Marxer Pi&ntilde;&oacute;n has been using the <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/proce55ing.org\">proce55ing<\/a> language to make <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caligraft.com\">beautiful pseudo-calligraphic variations<\/a> on your favorite TrueType fonts.  His technique appears similar to the one I used for my <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/uw\/loose\">Loose and Sketchy<\/a> rendering style: a virtual pen loosely follows the outlines of the letters, sometimes overshooting as it rounds a corner, other times missing a turn completely.  He&#8217;s done a nice job coming up with interesting variants on the physics of the simulation, and the results can look like anything from frenetic chicken-scratching to leaves drifting down a languid stream.  Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t get the interactive applets or the videos to work on my computer&#8230; but the still images look quite appealing!<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/draves.org\">Spot<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a project after my own heart. Ricard Marxer Pi&ntilde;&oacute;n has been using the proce55ing language to make beautiful pseudo-calligraphic variations on your favorite TrueType fonts. His technique appears similar to the one I used for my Loose and Sketchy rendering style: a virtual pen loosely follows the outlines of the letters, sometimes overshooting as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/hacking-the-alphabet-sketchy-style\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hacking the alphabet, sketchy-style.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}