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An ambigram is a expressed term, talent or other symbolic representation whose elements sustain interpretation when seen or interpreted from another direction, perspective, or orientation.
The meaning of the ambigram may either change, or continue to be the same, when looked at or interpreted from different perspectives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter details an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that handles to squash two different readings into the selfsame set of curves." Different ambigram musicians and artists (sometimes called ambigramists) may create very different ambigrams from the same word or words, differing in both style and form.
Popularity and discovery
The earliest known non-natural ambigram dates to 1893 by musician Peter Newell. Although better known for his children's books and illustrations for Tag Twain and Lewis Carroll, he publicized two literature of invertible illustrations, in which the picture turns into a different image entirely when turned upside down. The past page in his book Topsys & Turvys contains the phrase THE END, which, when inverted, reads PUZZLE. In Topsys & Turvys #2 2 (1902), Newell concluded with a variation on the ambigram in which THE END changes into PUZZLE 2.
The Verbeek remove "The UpsideDowns of old man Muffaroo and little woman Lovekins" used ambigrams in 3 consecutive pieces in March,1904, but normally the format of the use was avoided by this strip of expression balloons.
From June to September, 1908, the British regular The Strand released some ambigrams by different people in its "Curiosities" column. Of particular interest is the actual fact that four of the folks submitting ambigrams believed them to be always a uncommon property of particular words. Mitchell T. Lavin, whose "chump" was publicized in June, composed, "I believe it is in the only expression in the English language which has this peculiarity," while Clarence Williams wrote, about his "Choice" ambigram, "Possibly B is the only real letter of the alphabet that will produce this interesting anomaly."
In 1969, Raymond Loewy designed the rotational NEW MAN ambigram logo design, which is still used today. The mirror ambigram DeLorean Motor Company logo was first found in 1975.
John Langdon and Scott Kim each thought that that they had developed ambigrams in the 1970s also. Langdon and Kim are most likely both artists who have been most in charge of the popularization of ambigrams. John Langdon produced the first mirror image emblem "Starship" in 1975. Robert Petrick, who designed the invertible Angel company logo in 1976, was also an early on affect on ambigrams.
The initial known published reference to the term ambigram was by Hofstadter, who attributed the origin of the expressed word to conversations among a little group of friends during 1983-1984. The original 1979 edition of Hofstadter's G?del, Escher, Bach featured two 3-D ambigrams on the cover.
Ambigrams became more popular because of this of Dan Brown incorporating John Langdon's designs in to the story of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the Dvd movie release of the Angels & Demons movie is made up of a bonus section called "This is an Ambigram". Langdon also produced the ambigram that was used for a few variations of the book's cover. Dark brown used the name Robert Langdon for the hero in his novels as an homage to John Langdon.
In music, the Grateful Dead have used ambigrams many times, including on their albums American and Aoxomoxoa Beauty.
In the first group of the British isles show Treat or Technique, the show's sponsor and inventor Derren Brown uses cards with rotational ambigrams. These credit cards can read either 'Trick' or 'Treat'.
Although the words spelled by most ambigrams are relatively short in length, one DVD cover for The Princess Bride movie creates a rotational ambigram out of two words: "Princess Bride," whether seen right part up or ugly.
The Transformers movie series have logos that are a robot face whether viewed right aspect up or ugly. You will discover two such logos, one for an Autobot, and one for a Decepticon.
In 2015 iSmart's emblem on one of its travel chargers proceeded to go viral because upside-down it read "+Jews!" The ongoing company known that "...we learned a powerful lesson of what not to do when creating a brand."
Types of Ambigram
Ambigrams are exercises in graphical design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and visible understanding. Some ambigrams include a romance between their form and their content. Ambigrams usually belong to one of several categories:
3-Dimensional
- A design where an object is presented that can look to read several words or words when looked at from different perspectives. Such designs can be produced using constructive sound geometry.
Chain
- A design in which a phrase (or sometimes words) are interlinked, building a repeating string. Letters are usually overlapped and therefore a phrase begins partway through another expression. String ambigrams are shown in the form of a group sometimes.
Dihedral
- A natural mirror-image ambigram consisting of numerical digits.
Figure-ground
- A design in which the spaces between the characters of 1 expression form another portrayed expression.
Fractal
- A version of space-filling ambigrams where the tiled phrase branches from itself and then shrinks in a self-similar manner, building a fractal. See Scott Kim's fractal of the word "TREE" for an animated example.
Mirror-image
- A design that may be read when reflected in a mirror, usually as the same term or word both ways. Ambigrams that form different words when viewed in the mirror are also called glass door ambigrams, because they can be published over a a glass door to be read in different ways when exiting or getting into.
Multi-Lingual
- An ambigram that can be read a method in a single words and another real way in some other language. Multi-lingual ambigrams can exist in all of the many styles of ambigrams, with multi-lingual perceptual shift ambigrams being particularly striking.
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