When I first saw it, I just couldn't stop looking until I figured out how it works. Doesn't it make you want to try to make one of your own? I think it's amazing. The movie is pretty good too.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Ambigram
During one of my adventures in the world wide web, I came across something I thought was pretty cool. It's called an ambigram. Wikipedia describes them as a graphical figure that spells out one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. Here is a fine example of an ambigram:
When I first saw it, I just couldn't stop looking until I figured out how it works. Doesn't it make you want to try to make one of your own? I think it's amazing. The movie is pretty good too.
When I first saw it, I just couldn't stop looking until I figured out how it works. Doesn't it make you want to try to make one of your own? I think it's amazing. The movie is pretty good too.
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That is cool. I hadn't heard of these.
ReplyDeleteIt's like a visual palindrome, a phrase that reads the same way forwards and backwards. For example, "Yreka Bakery."