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Words that do Handstands
- jwineinger 7y agoThe Princess Bride disc cover has one -- https://i.imgur.com/CdxyMd9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/CdxyMd9.jpg
- GimbalLock 7y agoThe “e” in “Bride” is absolutely masterful.
- LeifCarrotson 7y agoIt also shows that OP's brute force approach is overly constricting - the stylized P forms both d and e upside down. Still in awe of the artist who came up with that one.
- airstrike 7y agoDon't you mean the "P" in "Princess"?
- alexmlamb 7y agoOne idea: try using adversarial training (i.e. train the classifier on examples with bounded perturbations which maximize error).
- xamuel 7y agoThe approach here is unnecessarily constrained because the author is seeking glyphs in advance for all two-letter pairs, "one size fits all", so it's unsurprising that the results are rather ugly and hard to read. If the font were allowed to depend on the desired words, that would add flexibility which might allow automatic production of much prettier solutions such as the artistic "earth air fire water" example (or jwineinger's Princess Bride example)
- doomrobo 7y agoIt would also make the search space exponentially bigger
- toxik 7y agoWell gosh darn it we didn’t invent GPUs just to mine bitcoins!
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago"Exponential" is an anagram for "More processing power won't save you".
- J5892 7y agoThen why does GPU stand for Bitcoin Processing Unit?
- kthejoker2 7y agoAt a minimum you could include all 2-character combos? Or even just a common subset, maybe the top 100 or those appearing in 1%+ of the OED. And MNIST itself is kind of limiting since no one was trying to write numbers "artistically".
- w-m 7y agoThe introductory "earth air fire water" example even shows the issue with using 1-to-1 pairs, as the two-letter group `th` becomes a single `w` in the ambigram.
- Jun8 7y agoIf you’re into general wordplay I highly recommend Making the Alphabet Dance.
- Scarblac 7y agoReminded me of this drawing of the alphabet: https://images.app.goo.gl/3pR7TQqohUDqM3hf8 https://images.app.goo.gl/3pR7TQqohUDqM3hf8 It's not the same, but it's left-right symmetrical instead and really neat.
- covercash 7y agoOpen in new tab, that link hijacks the back button in mobile Safari.
- tarikozket 7y agotip: you can press and hold `back button` in mobile safari to see a tab's history as a list.
- Scarblac 7y agoSorry, I was on my phone and I'm not sure what a good way to link a picture from Google Image Search is. If there is any.
- yorwba 7y agoThe text is very faint in many places, so I applied some thresholding in GIMP to make it crisper: https://i.imgur.com/cpC3PK9.png https://i.imgur.com/cpC3PK9.png There's probably a way to adapt the training process to create black and white images directly, e.g. by evaluating the classifiers on the thresholded images, but passing the gradients through to the underlying continuously-valued images.
- vectorEQ 7y agothat is actually much nicer on the eyes. nice one.
- lukeholder 7y agoNOW NO SWIMS ON MON
- cerberusss 7y agoThat's a good one, I like it.
- kjhughes 7y agoI've always admired Sun Microsystem's ambigram logo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/SUN_micr...
- koliber 7y agoI'm a fan of SONOS's logo: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Px2Steg_XRM/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAFa4/kpB3EVdNHGw/s0-c-k-no-ns/photo.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Px2Steg_XRM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
- kibwen 7y agoIt seems almost like cheating to make an ambigram out of a palindrome composed exclusively of rotationally-symmetric characters. :P
- bromuro 7y agoStill, they’ve found it. A lucky coincidence isn’t it.
- garaetjjte 7y agoThey used to have background which causes interesting effect when scrolling: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/23/7876777/sonos-sound-wave-logo https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/23/7876777/sonos-sound-wave-...
- ben174 7y agoThe Play 5 has the logo rotated 90 degrees vertically so it looks extra cool.
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- gumby 7y agoDesigned by Vaughn Pratt!
- rom1v 7y agoIn "Gare du Nord" in Paris: http://www.patricehamel.org/index.php?page=2&article=23 http://www.patricehamel.org/index.php?page=2&article=23 entrée / sortie (entrance / exit)
- kingbirdy 7y agoThat's not quite the same though - that's legible after reflection, ambigrams are rotations.
- rom1v 7y agoThat's a rotation in 3D ;-)
- gugagore 7y agoNo, that's not right. You can't rotate your left hand to look like your right. But they are reflections of each other.
- radeklew 7y agoBut text is already symmetrical along the z axis, so it works. Say your hands were 2d, so the backs looked the same as the palms. Now hold your hands so that you're looking at the palms and the fingers are pointing up. Rotate your left hand 180° along the y axis, and it would look like your right.
- gugagore 7y agoI misinterpreted the comment to mean a 2D reflection is a 3D rotation, in general. Thanks for pointing out the comment was about this specific case.
- gao8a 7y agoSweet, love this tattoo generator! ;)
- andrewla 7y agoThe author here used the MNIST set of handwritten numbers, but that seems an unnecessary constraint. An infinite (practically) training set is available in the form of existing fonts, which can be used to generate a training set. A set of distortions can be added in automatically to give the net a little more information to work with, and then this same methodology can be applied to generate the single glyph ambigrams. bigram<->character ambigrams are also feasible, but the search space gets pretty big.
- gumby 7y agoThis is interesting due to the tight constraints of the roman alphabet Islamic writing in the Arabic script has made use of these tricks for centuries as its script has built-in affordances for it.
- k_vi 7y agohttp://www.johnlangdon.net/works/angels-demons/ http://www.johnlangdon.net/works/angels-demons/
- garaetjjte 7y agoI can't read at all what is written on first image. I guess I couldn't on generated images either, but with captions they are barely recognizable.
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- mcphage 7y agoThe ambigram in Angels and Demons really annoyed me—there it was, and it was very pretty, but the book claimed that "nobody had ever been able to create such a thing". Yet clearly Dan Brown (or an illustrator he hired) could. It took me out of the book some.
- duckqlz 7y agoreminds me of: https://flipscript.com https://flipscript.com
- kibwen 7y ago> This process lets us “dream” of images representing whichever characters we want. Aside, I'm really psyched at the idea that the word "dream" has a chance to become an established term of art here. Do androids dream of electric sheep? Well, it depends on the model you've trained them with, obviously.
- teddyh 7y agoA lot of ambigrams can be found here: http://cerulean.st/ambigram/indexold.html http://cerulean.st/ambigram/indexold.html
- dasyatidprime 7y agoAt the risk of overexposure, there were also some strange claims made in 2009 whose source seems to have vanished but which I recall being based on a different machine ambigram generator, resulting in Cerulean responding with this 7×7 half-turn rotational ambigram grid (where transposing the matrix flips the images, so that there's 28 distinct images presented in 49 cells): https://ceruleanst.livejournal.com/177992.html?nojs=1 https://ceruleanst.livejournal.com/177992.html?nojs=1
- bazzargh 7y agoyou can see the strange claim here: http://web.archive.org/web/20110702084440/http://www.ambigram.com/ambigram-card-game http://web.archive.org/web/20110702084440/http://www.ambigra... "The Ambigram deck itself seems impossible at first, and in fact, it would have been impossible just a few years ago. No human being could have designed it alone, even if they possessed several lifetimes to work on the problem." which is exactly what Cerulean's page refutes - it's a hand-designed 7x7 grid where each word transforms into each of the other words.
- jnbiche 7y agoAny good recommendations for a good, discrete gradient descent tutorial, text or Youtube, assuming only calculus? It's one of those things I learned the basics of several years ago and have now forgotten (which frustrates me, but is understandable since I don't use machine learning at work).
- pmiller2 7y agoAt first, I thought this was going to be about words that are autoantonyms. Here are 25 examples: https://mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites https://mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own...
- markleeville 7y agoIn high school I would make these and post them on DeviantArt. Was scrolling the Reddit front page and saw my work tattooed on a man's arm. Shocked, to say the least. https://twitter.com/jacknjellify/status/820346345429078016 https://twitter.com/jacknjellify/status/820346345429078016
- frankus 7y agoWould be great if someone could come up with a "Pull" sticker that would read "Push" when mirrored.
- Schmazo 7y agoWOWS IS MOM. (WOWS IS MOM standing on her head is a statement, not a question)
- Stratoscope 7y agoIf you like this, check out Inversions by Scott Kim. https://www.google.com/search?q=scott+kim+inversions&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=scott+kim+inversions&tbm=isc... The book is out of print, but you can find used copies. It has a Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter and a Backword by Jef Raskin. I bought an autographed copy at a computer show in San Francisco on March 21, 1982. The way Scott autographed the books was by inventing and drawing your own personalized inversion on the spot! Mine reads with my first name right side up and my last name if you turn it upside down. One clever thing I just noticed: my first name has "ae" in it and my last name has "ea", so that made a natural way to link the inverted names together. Needless to say, this is one of my most treasured books. Thanks Scott!