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File: 1259487371254.png -(85557 B, 800x600) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. [Oekaki]
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I've tried to find a handwriting system, that is suitable for "infinite" media(paper) and to small one(touchpads on mobile devices, etc). And, finally, made it. It is too simple, so i've, probably, rediscovered already known. Original "inplace" version can be "ported" to four-positional joystick, found on some old phones and to "infinite" paper (done). It is (almost) direction-insensitive, "recognizing" program can "synchronize" it's coordinates with yours at first stroke on every word.

In short (in-place version): letters "starts" and "ends" in the arbitrary chosen "centre" (near the point, where the "pen" first lands on writing surface), and are distinguished by the direction of pen's "horizontal" movement near the 2 points at "vertical" extremes. We recognize 5 variants at each (--, -+, 0, +-, ++). That gives us 25 distinct letters. Not enough for natlangs, but almost perfect for lojban. Also, 2 "special" features (horizontal strokes in 2 directions) are available somewhere. I've used them for "'" and "y". Natlangs can use it to extend the letter space to at least 36. Another extension is possible by adding "microletters" at the bottom/top parts of some full-size letters. I've wanted to use it for lojban's diphthong, but that complicates the writing program, so that is postponed.

The system is easily adopted to infinite paper, by adding "time" to the "horizontal" axis on the "lower->upper" part of trajectory. Each letter, then, can be described as 2 points with cubic spline lines between them and to/from first/last points of adjacent letters.
The choice of "y" and "'" have made "y'y" indistinguishable from "y" on paper, which can be fixed in several ways, not described here.

Program generated result is in the picture. "Vertical" axis is skewed -25° (stolen from the daughter's exercise book), "time" goes from left to right. The choice of axis is arbitrary, at the bottom you can see xrulyvalsi, written with polar coordinates (i cant read it, but only 2 "features" are indistinguishable, some tweaking can, probably, fix it).

>> No.544  

It's fascinating that you're generating this "handwriting" using a computer program. The possibilities that opens up are quite unusual. Although, I wouldn't have shown the polar-coordinate example. A computer program might be able to decipher it, but it's unreadable and likely unwritable to normal people, and it resembles a scribble more than anything else, so it has little aesthetic value. How about showing us an example of left-to-right writing, using a real Lojban sentence?

>> No.545  
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"mi na e skami ciska to zo'e la syvygys". "polar" example was here to emphasize the fact, that up-to-down, right-to-left or any other (:even crazy "in circles", boustrophedon, changing colours (?rainbowriting?)) are just the same under the hood. So, the agreement on "official" writing direction is not necessary, just show the "time" direction by running "horizontally" at the very beginning.

>> No.546  

"mi na e skami ciska to zo'e la syvygys" is incomprehensible. Decoding the example gives "mi na e lo selsampla ciska dei zo'e la syvygys", which would make a sensible sentence if "cu" were inserted between "selsampla" and "ciska". Rough translation: "A computer program, not I, wrote this using SVG".

How about the standard Lojban pangram: "o'i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi"?

>> No.547  

>>545

I love that point.

>> No.550  
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Sorry, i've made a lot of typos. To my excuse, i was too busy cleaning up python's :).
That time i've shifted the x-coordinates of asymmetrical "features", to make them a bit more visible. And copy-pasted your phrase, so it should be correct now :)



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