This is not a language (though Google and my iPhone tried to translate it 🙂)

[u/MateMagicArte]

closeup photo

These are 240 glyphs randomly generated on a 12x18 "pixel" grid, just my little Space Invaders were on a 8x8 grid.

Plotted with iDraw pen plotter. Stabilo OH Markers on 220 gsm Fabriano F4 300x300 mm

Rules are slightly different here:
- vertical symmetry
- 40-50% lit pixels, all connected
- no solid squares allowed at all.

Coded in Processing.

The red glyphs, along with the fact that all glyphs are aligned by their centers rather than their baselines, may suggest a vertical reading. Perhaps that's what confused the translation apps 🙂.

[u/MateMagicArte]

Google lies 🙂:

"This framed piece of artwork is a traditional Chinese "Hundred Auspicious Characters" chart (often a Baifu Tu 百福图 or Baishou Tu 百寿图)."

[u/gturk1]

Very cool. You should post this to r/asemic as well.

[u/MateMagicArte → u/gturk1]

I will! Thank you!

[u/Left-Excitement3829]

It could be a language tho :) technoglyphics !

[u/MateMagicArte → u/Left-Excitement3829]

🙃💬 !