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Why not just modify the glyphs programmatically on draw so every character is unique? I thought of writing a word processor where each glyph created a bump map
by disordinary 10y ago
Why not just modify the glyphs programmatically on draw so every character is unique?
I thought of writing a word processor where each glyph created a bump map so as you type the characters are slightly indented as if stroked by a type writer.
- bazzargh 10y agoBack in the 90s, this was done using Type 3 fonts (which have full access to the postscript language). This 1995 paper, for example, describes a technique for generative, random handwriting from samples. http://luc.devroye.org/mcdougallpaper.pdf http://luc.devroye.org/mcdougallpaper.pdf
- jongalloway2 10y agoHere's a very recent technique that renders an input string based on analysis of handwriting samples: http://visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/handwriting/ http://visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/handwriting/