I have worked for some time on an ambigram for my name. I wanted to use it in a new sig, but as of today only the ambigram is finished, and I made it into a minimal sig. Any comments or ratings c/c are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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p.s. An ambigram is a text that can be rotated by 180 degree and still looks the same.

you should make this into an animated gif so that the text can rotate, highlighting the point :D

Just to let you know, ambigram isn't in the dictionary..I think you have the wrong word, but I don't know what the correct one is.

Just to let you know, ambigram isn't in the dictionary..I think you have the wrong word, but I don't know what the correct one is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"An ambigram is a word or a group of words which can be read in at least two different ways. The most usual are symmetric under a rotation of 180 degrees (i.e., they look the same upside down) or under a vertical axis reflection (i.e., they look the same in a mirror). The term "ambigram" was coined by Douglas Hofstadter and some of his friends; see pp. 274-277 of his excellent book Metamagical Themas (Basic Books, 1985)."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google 1 - 0 Ryan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

 

Just to let you know, ambigram isn't in the dictionary..I think you have the wrong word, but I don't know what the correct one is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"An ambigram is a word or a group of words which can be read in at least two different ways. The most usual are symmetric under a rotation of 180 degrees (i.e., they look the same upside down) or under a vertical axis reflection (i.e., they look the same in a mirror). The term "ambigram" was coined by Douglas Hofstadter and some of his friends; see pp. 274-277 of his excellent book Metamagical Themas (Basic Books, 1985)."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google 1 - 0 Ryan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:oops: I searched dictionary.com

 

 

Just to let you know, ambigram isn't in the dictionary..I think you have the wrong word, but I don't know what the correct one is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"An ambigram is a word or a group of words which can be read in at least two different ways. The most usual are symmetric under a rotation of 180 degrees (i.e., they look the same upside down) or under a vertical axis reflection (i.e., they look the same in a mirror). The term "ambigram" was coined by Douglas Hofstadter and some of his friends; see pp. 274-277 of his excellent book Metamagical Themas (Basic Books, 1985)."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google 1 - 0 Ryan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:oops: I searched dictionary.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just goes to show you... When in doubt...GOOGLE IT!

yay ambigrams are cool, just like angels and demons the book that has some in it :D 8/10

sweet ness

very cool, like the font....... YAY ambigrams! :shock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

98.35/100 Very cool

Yah, the book "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. I just finished reading that, it got me into ambigrams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since I am obsessed with ambi's I give your sig 9.5/10

Nice to see you like the sig, thank you. About the rotation: One problem is that the sig (or the max size allowed for it) is too small to rotate it without cutting it. But you are right, I need some way to highlight the symmetry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How is the readability? I am personally not 100% happy with the y/s combination and the e/m part, but i couldn't find a better way do write it yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the e/m part there is another solution (this is from ambigram.matic):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but having two different types of 'e' in the name looks not very well either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any ideas, comments, suggestions or ratings welcome

the reading is pretty good takes like 10 seconds to like see it

I can read it fine. :)

http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mattpleb3cl.swf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got bored and was inspired to make this lol

Woa, you made the imageshack site? Nice.

ahh Dan Brown had some interesting ambigram's in the book he wrote before The DaVinci Code.

 

 

 

tho his where better..

 

 

 

simplicity all the way.. in containment of ambigrams.

100/10 lol thats something i cant do lol pretty cool!

thx, maybe I should take a look at Dan Brown's books once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Quer_Skulll: I didn't really get your point ... hmmm. Do you think my ambigram should be simplified more, or use a simpler base font?

Woa, you made the imageshack site? Nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meh stupid tip.it censor. Here it is

 

 

 

http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mattpleb3cl. swf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

remove space

thx, maybe I should take a look at Dan Brown's books once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Quer_Skulll: I didn't really get your point ... hmmm. Do you think my ambigram should be simplified more, or use a simpler base font?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

use a black font and white background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bernini Mystery, page 35 has a ambigram saying Inumiali or something like that.. ill scan it in for you when i get back from school.

all interested in doing their own ambigram, can take a look at these to engines generating ambigrams automatically:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm

 

 

 

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-paul.davalan/liens/liens_ambi.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the ambigrams obtained from these are not always perfect, but they are a good start or just nice to get some ideas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice one Mercifull :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Quer_Skulll: I will soon make and upload a black and white version ... looking forward to your scan, thx.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

edit: here is the black and white version of the sig:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here is the latest version, I changed some small details and the e/m part in the middle. How about readability and style? Better or worse?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sry for double post :?