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An ambigram is a indicated word, talent or other symbolic representation whose elements retain meaning when interpreted or viewed from another type of direction, point of view, or orientation.
The meaning of the ambigram might either change, or remain the same, when viewed or interpreted from different perspectives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter details an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that manages to squash two different readings in to the selfsame group of curves." Different ambigram music artists (sometimes called ambigramists) may create very different ambigrams from the same term or words, differing in both style and form.
Popularity and discovery
The earliest known non-natural ambigram times to 1893 by musician Peter Newell. Although better known for his children's books and illustrations for Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, he shared two literature of invertible illustrations, in which the picture turns into a different image totally when turned upside down. The final page in his publication Topsys & Turvys provides the phrase The ultimate end, which, when inverted, reads PUZZLE. In Topsys & Turvys Number 2 2 (1902), Newell finished with a variation on the ambigram where the last 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 usually the format of the strip averted the utilization of phrase balloons.
From to September June, 1908, the United kingdom every month The Strand publicized a series of ambigrams by different people in its "Curiosities" column. Of particular interest is the fact that all four of the people submitting ambigrams thought them to be a rare property of particular words. Mitchell T. Lavin, whose "chump" was published in June, published, "I believe it is in the only term in the English language which includes this peculiarity," while Clarence Williams wrote, about his "Guess" ambigram, "Possibly B is the sole notice of the alphabet that will produce this interesting anomaly."
In 1969, Raymond Loewy designed the rotational NEW MAN ambigram emblem, today which is still in use. The mirror ambigram DeLorean Motor Company logo was first used in 1975.
John Langdon and Scott Kim each thought that they had created ambigrams in the 1970s also. Langdon and Kim are most likely the two artists who have been most responsible for the popularization of ambigrams. John Langdon produced the first mirror image logo "Starship" in 1975. Robert Petrick, who designed the invertible Angel custom logo in 1976, was an early on affect 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 small 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 therefore of Dan Brown incorporating John Langdon's designs in to the story of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the Disc 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 variations of the book's cover. Brown used the name Robert Langdon for the hero in his novels as an homage to John Langdon.
In music, the Grateful Deceased have used ambigrams several times, including on the albums Aoxomoxoa and American Beauty.
Inside the first group of the British isles show Treat or Trick, 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 brief long, one Dvd and blu-ray cover for The Princess Bride-to-be movie creates a rotational ambigram out of two words: "Princess Bride," whether looked at right aspect or upside down up.
The Transformers movie series have logos that are a automatic robot face whether seen right side up or ugly. You will find two such logos, one for an Autobot, and one for a Decepticon.
In 2015 iSmart's custom logo using one of its travel chargers proceeded to go viral because upside-down it read "+Jews!" The business observed that "...we learned a powerful lesson of what never to do when creating a custom logo."
Types of Ambigram
Ambigrams are exercises in graphical design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and aesthetic conception. Some ambigrams feature a romance between their form and their content. Ambigrams usually belong to one of several categories:
3-Dimensional
- A design where an subject is presented that can look to learn several words or words when seen from different sides. Such designs can be made using constructive stable geometry.
Chain
- A design where a term (or sometimes words) are interlinked, forming a repeating chain. Words are usually overlapped and therefore a phrase begins partway through another term. 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 areas between the letters of one phrase form another expressed word.
Fractal
- A version of space-filling ambigrams where the tiled expression 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 may be read when reflected in a mirror, as the same word or saying both ways usually. Ambigrams that form different words when viewed in the mirror are also called glass door ambigrams, because they could be printed on a glass door to be read differently when entering or exiting.
Multi-Lingual
- An ambigram that can be read one of many ways in one terms and another real way in a new terminology. Multi-lingual ambigrams can exist in all of the many varieties of ambigrams, with multi-lingual perceptual shift ambigrams being particularly striking.
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