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An ambigram is a word, art form or other symbolic representation whose elements retain meaning when seen or interpreted from another way, perspective, or orientation.
The meaning of the ambigram may either change, or remain the same, when viewed or interpreted from different perspectives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter details an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that handles to press two different readings into the selfsame group of curves." Different ambigram music artists (sometimes called ambigramists) may create very different ambigrams from the same expression or words, differing in both style and form.
Discovery and popularity
The initial known non-natural ambigram dates to 1893 by designer Peter Newell. Although better known for his children's catalogs and illustrations for Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, he shared two catalogs of invertible illustrations, in which the picture turns into a different image totally when turned upside down. The past page in his publication Topsys & Turvys provides the phrase THE FINISH, which, when inverted, reads PUZZLE. In Topsys & Turvys #2 2 (1902), Newell ended with a variance on the ambigram where the END changes into PUZZLE 2.
The Verbeek remove "The UpsideDowns of old man Muffaroo and little lady Lovekins" used ambigrams in 3 consecutive whitening strips in March,1904, but often the format of this remove prevented the use of expression balloons.
From June to September, 1908, the British every month The Strand printed a series of ambigrams by differing people in its "Curiosities" column. Of particular interest is the fact that all four of people submitting ambigrams believed them to be a rare property of particular words. Mitchell T. Lavin, whose "chump" was printed in June, composed, "I believe it is in the only word in the British language which includes this peculiarity," while Clarence Williams had written, about his "Guess" ambigram, "Possibly B is really the only notice of the alphabet that will produce this interesting anomaly."
In 1969, Raymond Loewy designed the rotational NEW MAN ambigram logo, today which continues to be in use. The mirror ambigram DeLorean Motor Company logo was first found in 1975.
John Langdon and Scott Kim each believed that they had invented ambigrams in the 1970s also. Langdon and Kim are probably both artists who have been most responsible for the popularization of ambigrams. John Langdon produced the first reflection image custom logo "Starship" in 1975. Robert Petrick, who designed the invertible Angel custom logo in 1976, was an early on effect on ambigrams also.
The initial known published reference to the word ambigram was by Hofstadter, who attributed the origin of the word to conversations among a little group of friends during 1983-1984. The initial 1979 edition of Hofstadter's G?del, Escher, Bach presented two 3-D ambigrams on the cover.
Ambigrams became popular consequently of Dan Brown incorporating John Langdon's designs in to the story of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the DVD release of the Angels & Demons movie is made up of a bonus section called "That is an Ambigram". Langdon also produced the ambigram that was used for a few variants of the book's cover. Dark brown used the true name Robert Langdon for the hero in his books as an homage to John Langdon.
In music, the Grateful Dead have used ambigrams many times, including on the albums Aoxomoxoa and American Beauty.
In the first series of the United kingdom show Trick or Treat, the show's number and inventor Derren Brown uses credit cards with rotational ambigrams. These credit cards can read either 'Trick' or 'Treat'.
Although the words spelled by most ambigrams are relatively brief in length, one Movie cover for The Princess Bride-to-be movie creates a rotational ambigram out of two words: "Princess Bride-to-be," whether viewed right part up or ugly.
The Transformers movie series have logos that are a automatic robot face whether viewed right aspect up or upside down. There are two such logos, one for an Autobot, and one for a Decepticon.
In 2015 iSmart's logo design on one of its travel chargers gone viral because upside-down it read "+Jews!" The company observed that "...we learned a powerful lesson of what not to do when creating a custom logo."
Types of Ambigram
Ambigrams are exercises in graphical design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and visible notion. Some ambigrams include a romantic relationship between their form and their content. Ambigrams usually get into one of the categories:
3-Dimensional
- A design where an thing is presented that can look to learn several letters or words when seen from different perspectives. Such designs can be produced using constructive sound geometry.
Chain
- A design where a word (or sometimes words) are interlinked, building a repeating string. Letters are usually overlapped meaning that a phrase will start partway through another portrayed term. String ambigrams are provided by means of a group sometimes.
Dihedral
- An all natural mirror-image ambigram consisting of numerical digits.
Figure-ground
- A design where the spots between the letters of one word form another term.
Fractal
- A version of space-filling ambigrams where the tiled word branches from itself and then shrinks in a self-similar manner, forming a fractal. See Scott Kim's fractal of the word "TREE" for an animated example.
Mirror-image
- A design that can be read when reflected in a reflection, usually as the same phrase or term both ways. Ambigrams that form different words when viewed in the mirror are also known as glass door ambigrams, because they can be printed on the glass door to be read differently when entering or exiting.
Multi-Lingual
- An ambigram that may be read a proven way in a single terminology and one other way in a new dialect. Multi-lingual ambigrams can exist in all of the various styles of ambigrams, with multi-lingual perceptual move ambigrams being eye-catching specifically.
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