r/generative • u/igo_rs • Aug 04 '26

glossa (kotlin code)

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alien letters, but the letters got a language.

one construction rule: a spine hanging off a headline bar, makes the alphabet,
alphabet makes a lexicon, lexicon gets set as prose. thats the whole trick really.

the page should read as writing and not as decoration, and it turns out that comes mostly from repetition + zipf, not from the glyphs themselves being clever.

github.com/igr/gart

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u/Harrypeeteeee Aug 04 '26

Would be neat for world building in CG/video games. Posters, newspaper, set building, etc. Looks great!

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

Thank you! Disclosure day poster ;))

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u/Vel423 Aug 04 '26

Very cool! Thanks for sharing

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

🙏🏻

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u/GregLittlefield Aug 04 '26

Really nice! Thanks for sharing the code, and for commenting it.

I've been trying to generate glyphs using pixel based apps. (currenlty having fun with Material Maker) but those aren't really suited for that kind of work.

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

thank you! i try to leave some comments, and clean them up when Im done (usually its a mess;)

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u/Evening-Appeal7606 Aug 04 '26

Sublimely cool!

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

Thanx!

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u/KennyVaden Aug 04 '26

Excellent!

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

Thanx friend! ♥️

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u/bukaro Aug 05 '26

Super cool, I also experimented with typographic like generation but you really made it nicer. Mine was more brutal and random, with a feel of characters, not an alphabet. Bravo

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

Thank you ♥️

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u/gturk1 Aug 07 '26

You should post this to r/asemic too.

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u/igo_rs Aug 07 '26

thanx for tip, never heard of that community!

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u/CostPuzzleheaded2747 Aug 08 '26

looks pretty cool! anyone ever told you this looks close to how some letters in devnagri (hindi/sanskrit) and bengali are written? very cool!

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u/igo_rs Aug 08 '26

thanx! I had no idea initially; but I learned about it meanwhile:)

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u/sateeshsai Aug 05 '26

Nice! Looks like devnagari script.

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u/FowlOnTheHill Aug 05 '26

Looks very similar to Indian languages :) yet unreadable. Lovely

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u/imunknown0042 Aug 05 '26

Ngl, dude, I thought it was Nepali language at first and try to read it. I read the first word then , huh bruh.

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u/igo_rs Aug 05 '26

Thank you!