More than Words: Fonts as Generative Art (talk from GA 2021)

A talk by Erik Demaine presented live at the 24th Generative Art Conference [www.generativeart.com/] on December 17, 2021.
Abstract: Artistic fonts offer a way to transform any text into an art print, interactive software, or animation. Thus we can view artistic fonts as a form of generative art: whereas most generative art is determined by an initial random seed, with fonts the “seed” is arbitrary text. An advantage of this approach is that the resulting print can encode one or more messages. With puzzle fonts, where the letters are encoded but not explicit in the glyphs, this message can be hidden within the resulting artwork. We demonstrate this approach to generative art using a series of mathematical and puzzle fonts we have designed over the years, which are available as free interactive web apps from erikdemaine.org/fonts
To learn more, check out the following paper and interactive font websites:
erikdemaine.org/papers/FontsG...
erikdemaine.org/fonts/
erikdemaine.org/fonts/voronoi/
erikdemaine.org/fonts/maze/
erikdemaine.org/fonts/silhoue...
erikdemaine.org/fonts/cane/
erikdemaine.org/fonts/yinyang/

[@Denise11Schultz]

Thank you for the tour of your delightful fonts. It is a lot of fun to imagine some fonts as quilts. Could be printed onto freezer paper to be cut into iron-on templates.
I would probably be able to see the letters after that long looking at them. ☺️🌌✨

[@Rule_110]

You're the best math guy I've ever seen.

[@-mahderemezmur2521]

I'm so stunned to find this channle but I can't tell if this is official Erik's channel. Subscribed and expect a lot of content.

[@Denise11Schultz]

Remember how inspired Steve Jobs was by his college calligraphy course.