An interactive digital art project that turns typed text into flowing, abstract animated symbols. The symbols connect fluidly, much like handwriting, but in an entirely abstract way. Each letter has its own design, and then each instance of the letter has a different seed such that you have slight differences - the same as with handwriting.
This was fun, I liked playing with it.
I'd like to ask for a feature that I can pass a query string
wwww.silentpoems.net?poem=How+do+I+love+thee%3F+Let+me+count+the+ways.+I+love+thee+to+the+depth+and+breadth+and+height+My+soul+can+reach%2C+when+feeling+out+of+sight+For+the+ends+of+being+and+ideal+grace.
and have the poem rendered. That way I can send poems to my beloved.
I think it could be neat to leverage ligatures, i.e. preceding glyph could either affect the seed of the next or even make different "cursive" connecting swashes. Words could become pictures with individual "glyphs" blended together.
This is so beautiful. The animations are dynamic, love how every single letter animates dynamically making itself different even if repeated.
Minor problems unless they are intentional: I can't hold on a key and let it type e.g. can't press and hold backspace to clear all text.
When reached at the end, can still type but the text becomes invisible. can't scroll and see that.
thank you so much! some of that indeed are small bugs that I overlooked, I'll try to fix them soon. the typing of one key at a time is on purpose (this project is meant to be used "in real life" in combination with an analogue typewriter)
Does not work on mobile (can not type)
yes, it's a known issue unfortunately. I couldn't get it to bring up the keyboard (I tried even with a hidden text field) hopefully you can try it on desktop
I imagine this could be sold to upscale hotels or concert arenas, for display on a big screen in a reception area or foyer.
If you press tab, then Ctrl+A then backspace, you can delete the help icon.
Very cute website, I really like how every glyph looks, some more abstract than others.
Love it, amazing work. Was about to ask you to enable a downloadable image and then right clicked and found you can download the image :-)
Madam I'm Adam
becomes petal hill sunrise
Without case
Or space.
Feature request: could you make d and b have symmetry ? More here https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/12/27/visually-symmetric...
The animations are awesome