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An ambigram is a portrayed term, art form or other symbolic representation whose elements retain so this means when interpreted or looked at from another type of way, point of view, or orientation.
The meaning of the ambigram may either change, or stay the same, when interpreted or looked at from different perspectives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter represents an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings into the selfsame set of curves." Different ambigram music artists (sometimes called ambigramists) may create completely different ambigrams from the same word or words, differing in both style and form.
Discovery and popularity
The initial known non-natural ambigram times to 1893 by artist Peter Newell. Although better known for his children's catalogs and illustrations for Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, he printed two books of invertible illustrations, in which the picture turns into a different image totally when turned upside down. The very last page in his publication Topsys & Turvys provides the phrase The ultimate end, which, when inverted, reads PUZZLE. In Topsys & Turvys #2 2 (1902), Newell concluded with a variance on the ambigram in which THE END changes into PUZZLE 2.
The Verbeek remove "The UpsideDowns of old man Muffaroo and little sweetheart Lovekins" used ambigrams in 3 consecutive whitening strips in March,1904, but often the format of the remove avoided the utilization of term balloons.
From June to September, 1908, the British monthly The Strand printed a series of ambigrams by different people in its "Curiosities" column. Of particular interest is the fact that four of people submitting ambigrams presumed them to be always a unusual property of particular words. Mitchell T. Lavin, whose "chump" was released in June, wrote, "I think it is in the only term in the British language which has this peculiarity," while Clarence Williams published, about his "Choice" ambigram, "Possibly B is the only notice of the alphabet that will produce this interesting anomaly."
In 1969, Raymond Loewy designed the rotational NEW MAN ambigram company logo, which is still in use today. The mirror ambigram DeLorean Motor Company logo was first used in 1975.
John Langdon and Scott Kim each presumed that they had developed ambigrams in the 1970s also. Langdon and Kim are probably both artists who have been most in charge of the popularization of ambigrams. John Langdon produced the first mirror image logo design "Starship" in 1975. Robert Petrick, who designed the invertible Angel company logo in 1976, was also an early on affect on ambigrams.
The earliest known published reference to the term ambigram was by Hofstadter, who attributed the origin of the word to conversations among a little group of friends during 1983-1984. The original 1979 edition of Hofstadter's G?del, Escher, Bach highlighted two 3-D ambigrams on the cover.
Ambigrams became popular consequently of Dan Dark brown incorporating John Langdon's designs into the plot of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the Dvd movie release of the Angels & Demons movie has a bonus section called "This is an Ambigram". Langdon also produced the ambigram that was used for some versions of the book's cover. Darkish used the true name Robert Langdon for the hero in his books as an homage to John Langdon.
In music, the Grateful Deceased have used ambigrams many times, including on the albums American and Aoxomoxoa Beauty.
Within the first group of the British isles show Treat or Technique, the show's sponsor and inventor Derren Brown uses credit cards with rotational ambigrams. These cards can read either 'Strategy' or 'Treat'.
Although the words spelled by most ambigrams are relatively brief long, one Dvd movie cover for The Princess Bride movie creates a rotational ambigram out of two words: "Princess Bride," whether seen right side or ugly up.
The Transformers movie series have logos that are a automatic robot face whether viewed right part up or upside down. You can find two such logos, one for an Autobot, and one for a Decepticon.
In 2015 iSmart's company logo using one of its travel chargers gone viral because upside-down it read "+Jews!" The business mentioned that "...we learned a powerful lessons of what never to do when creating a logo."
Types of Ambigram
Ambigrams are exercises in graphical design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and aesthetic conception. Some ambigrams include a marriage between their form and their content. Ambigrams usually get caught in one of several categories:
3-Dimensional
- A design where an thing is provided that can look to read several characters or words when looked at from different sides. Such designs can be generated using constructive solid geometry.
Chain
- A design where a expression (or sometimes words) are interlinked, forming a repeating string. Characters are usually overlapped meaning that a expression will start partway through another expression. Sometimes chain ambigrams are presented in the form of a circle.
Dihedral
- A natural mirror-image ambigram consisting of numerical digits.
Figure-ground
- A design where the places between the words of 1 word form another portrayed expression.
Fractal
- A version of space-filling ambigrams where the tiled expression branches from itself and then shrinks in a self-similar manner, developing a fractal. See Scott Kim's fractal of the term "TREE" for an animated example.
Mirror-image
- A design that can be read when shown in a mirror, as the same expression or saying both ways usually. Ambigrams that form different words when viewed in the mirror are also known as glass door ambigrams, because they can be printed on a glass door to be read differently when entering or exiting.
Multi-Lingual
- An ambigram that may be read the best way in one words and yet another way in a new words. Multi-lingual ambigrams can exist in every of the various varieties of ambigrams, with multi-lingual perceptual shift ambigrams being particularly striking.
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