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Hey! Glad you liked that one. So it does introduce random variation. I had the employee write each letter ~15 times, and then they are plucked at random and th

Hey! Glad you liked that one. So it does introduce random variation. I had the employee write each letter ~15 times, and then they are plucked at random and then more "wobble" is applied randomly. So each character is slightly altered from what she wrote. Her original stroke actually never shows up anywhere, which is kinda funny to think about. Letter spacing, word spacing, line spacing (y pos), line starting point (xpos), and baseline drift are all random as well. I don't know how to write and or use a GAN model so I didn't. Maybe next time!

wombatmobile 5y ago
> Letter spacing, word spacing, line spacing (y pos), line starting point (xpos), and baseline drift are all random as well. Did you consider varying intraline individual character y pos? The videos look like not.
- aarondf 5y ago
  Yeah, that's the baseline drift I mentioned. The whole line kinda flows on a wavy baseline, like a human does. It doesn't look like it on the video because we're talking a few millimeters or less. But when you stand back from it you see that the baselines aren't exactly straight.
  - wombatmobile 5y ago
    OK, nice.
scottyp21 5y ago
Really cool. I've seen a lot of handwritten letter writing services, but most lack realistic variations. It's a pretty crowded market, but this definitely has potential as a spin-off service. Also, thanks for the A in ACCT 229!
- aarondf 5y ago
  Ha! Weird seeing an ACCT 229 student here. You're welcome. Congrats on getting the A!
soheil 5y ago
That's great, I guess you could have a normal printer do the same and make it look like it's handwritten using your method. The only thing left would probably be the pressure applied to the pen while writing if you can vary that.
- aarondf 5y ago
  That only thing left is a pretty big one! We could print it and then apply the pressure with a pen, but at that point I think writing would suffice
fuzzylightbulb 5y ago
Was this custom code that you wrote to do this? Or is this something that we can find out there in the world? I have been working on this off and on for a few years now and I have just not been able to come up with a reliable way to pull this off. Great work all around!

wombatmobile 5y ago

> Letter spacing, word spacing, line spacing (y pos), line starting point (xpos), and baseline drift are all random as well. Did you consider varying intraline individual character y pos? The videos look like not.

aarondf 5y ago
Yeah, that's the baseline drift I mentioned. The whole line kinda flows on a wavy baseline, like a human does. It doesn't look like it on the video because we're talking a few millimeters or less. But when you stand back from it you see that the baselines aren't exactly straight.
- wombatmobile 5y ago
  OK, nice.

scottyp21 5y ago

Really cool. I've seen a lot of handwritten letter writing services, but most lack realistic variations. It's a pretty crowded market, but this definitely has potential as a spin-off service. Also, thanks for the A in ACCT 229!

aarondf 5y ago
Ha! Weird seeing an ACCT 229 student here. You're welcome. Congrats on getting the A!

soheil 5y ago

That's great, I guess you could have a normal printer do the same and make it look like it's handwritten using your method. The only thing left would probably be the pressure applied to the pen while writing if you can vary that.

aarondf 5y ago
That only thing left is a pretty big one! We could print it and then apply the pressure with a pen, but at that point I think writing would suffice

fuzzylightbulb 5y ago

Was this custom code that you wrote to do this? Or is this something that we can find out there in the world? I have been working on this off and on for a few years now and I have just not been able to come up with a reliable way to pull this off. Great work all around!