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Amateur ShoDo practitioner here: not sure that "Japanese brush painting" is actually a good idea for programming. Maybe you mean something like the Korean writ
by Pamar 12y ago
Amateur ShoDo practitioner here: not sure that "Japanese brush painting" is actually a good idea for programming.
Maybe you mean something like the Korean writing system: Hangul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul)?
For what I know, Hangul "glyphs" provide consistent encoding (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featural_alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featural_alphabet).
In Japanese Kanji the "elements" (Radicals, or Bushu, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_%28Chinese_characters%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_%28Chinese_characters%2...) do _often_ work as semantic indicators (see for example Radical 85: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_85 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_85 which usually implies some connection with water or other liquids) but the connection may be obscure, or even look random - as an example (among hundreds) see 淋 where the radical for water, followed by two "tree" radicals means: "lonely, deserted, abandoned".
- pavlov 12y agoYeah, my idea is pretty vague. I didn't mean actually using any particular Japanese/Chinese/Korean writing system for programming, but rather something more abstract where elements of the calligraphic aesthetic would be adopted to serve algorithmic notation. Something like "this large brushy swoop here is the part where all those matrices on the left are reduced, and then on the right we have these leafy things that map them into coordinates"...
- Pamar 12y agoOk, well - maybe I'am going offtopic now but what I'd like to have is a _query language_ based on gesture. I.e. something to analyze data with. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo gives an idea of what I'd like to have, but of course in this case the data "transformation" are pre-scripted and the speaker goes through a sort of coreography. Imagine being able to play with data interactively by moving stuff around in space around you.