March 22, 2002

1:53 AM

"The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations."
posted by jacobw (4 comments total)

Seems this would take some work to generate significantly different alphabets. So far all the ones I tried ended up looking virtually the same. Makes me wonder what initial figures they used to generate some of the samples shown.
posted by HTuttle at 3:07 AM on March 22, 2002

If the Narnians had wound up using this alphabet (scroll down), I think Aslan would have been been severely pissed off.
posted by BT at 4:32 AM on March 22, 2002

It really is a great link, but I'm afraid it has been posted before.
posted by machaus at 6:35 AM on March 22, 2002

Wow, and so recently. I should have remembered...I did several searches because I thought it was too good to be true. Appears it is. I'll have to go check out what the discussion was like.
posted by jacobw at 7:04 AM on March 22, 2002