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36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one per day for 36 days. The yearly recurring open call was used in 2023 to explore the shapes of letters computationally and to test the functionality of some tools made at the Future Sketches Group.

36 Days of Type

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Calculating the nearest random point in the next letter shape for each current random point and then interpolating between them.

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Knot theory, color taken from video frames

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Working with superposition: combining primary colors to form more complex colors.

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Working with superposition: combining primary colors to form more complex colors.

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Adding depth to a 2-dimensional transformation

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Incrementally thinner strokes create a moiré effect on smaller screens.

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I wrote a script to calculate the skeleton of any (typographic) shape and trace it with any other shape (of course, I’m defaulting to an angular gradient). Revisiting it because this might be useful to create single-line (CNC) fonts.

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A slightly rickety algorithm that simulates braiding in 2D. The imperfections hint at the way it works.

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Grid with focus areas calculated on distance from a random point.

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ASCII animation with my favorite Unicode typeface, GNU Unifont.

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Pure HTML and CSS animations: radial gradients and 50% border-radius.

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Bilinear interpolation inspired by some of my favorite Op-Art.

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Modular lettering with animating components.

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CMYK superposition with rotating angles.

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Exploring shaders with some ChatGPT assistance: it's better at writing shader code than anticipated.

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Bilinear interpolation of basic shapes

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Expanding letterforms based on proximity to a random point.

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A knitted animation using a hacked knitting machine with the help of a tool that converts any animation into a knittable storyboard. The animation shows three color layers moving like an echo of the same rhythm, playing with legibility and abstraction before joining again into the letter R.

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Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion experiments with shaders.

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Modifying type outlines.

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Layered gradients

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Bilinear interpolation applied on the letter V.

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Modular lettering.

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I explored a tool I made that converts animations to a dithered sprite sheet for riso printers or knitting machines. a next step could be using some light computer vision to detect the corners of each frame (and using bilinear interpolation to stretch or scale).

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Exploring tangent, cosine and sine movements for stacking the components of this modular moving type.

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Modular type with adaptive colors.

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Research Topics

#design #computer vision #art #communications #computer science

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