Value Of Time

What motivates us and our happiness ...

Ambigrams

Ever since I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, I have been captivated by the idea of creating an ambigram out of my name. As always, google.com is a great help when it comes to finding resources to get the job done. Google turned up these neat little websites that try automating creation of ambigrams..
(1) flipscript.com
(2) Ambimatic

However, these could not give me a satisfactory result. Automation can never match up to human ingenuity when it comes to art!

It amazes me how the human mind fills up gaps in our visual acuity to alter our perception. Ambigrams are a prime example of this. We see what we want to see; the brain fills up the image with our imagination to build something we want to perceive. If we look at the image above, we will see that we have different designs to establish the 'A' character. The 'F' character is the same height as the 'A' character, 'F' being non-caps should be taller than the 'A'. The 'Z' provides completion to the 'A' character and emphasizes the 'F'. The 'L' gives form to the 'A'. This challenges the standardization of a script. Can an algorithm do this sort of combinational analysis based on logical fundamentals? Well, not yet anyway (unless those boys at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA have something stashed away).

Ambigrams challenge the strict comformity of script to turn mundane instances of verbiage into astonishing pieces of art! It took several weeks of fooling around with a pencil and a notepad to finally get a vague idea of how that particular piece of art should look like. Boring project meetings and conference calls were especially helpful in providing a stimulus in this direction :))). Well, the final result is the refined image shown here!

later ... :)))

Memorable Quote from Doctor Who ..

"Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Good things dont always soften the bad things but vice versa, the bad things dont always spoil the good things or make them unimportant."