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An ambigram is a term, art form or other symbolic representation whose elements sustain meaning when viewed or interpreted from another route, perspective, or orientation.
This is of the ambigram might either change, or stay the same, when looked at or interpreted from different perspectives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter explains an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings in to the selfsame set of curves." Different ambigram artists (sometimes called ambigramists) may create very different ambigrams from the same word or words, differing in both form and style.
Discovery and popularity
The initial known non-natural ambigram times to 1893 by musician Peter Newell. Although better known for his children's literature and illustrations for Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, he printed two literature of invertible illustrations, in which the picture turns into a different image when turned upside down entirely. The final page in his book Topsys & Turvys provides the phrase THE END, which, when inverted, reads PUZZLE. In Topsys & Turvys Number 2 2 (1902), Newell finished with a variance on the ambigram where the END changes into PUZZLE 2.
The Verbeek remove "The UpsideDowns of old man Muffaroo and little girl Lovekins" used ambigrams in 3 consecutive pieces in March,1904, but otherwise the format of the utilization was prevented by this remove of phrase balloons.
From June to September, 1908, the English regular The Strand shared some ambigrams by different people in its "Curiosities" column. Of particular interest is the fact that four of folks submitting ambigrams believed them to be always a exceptional property of particular words. Mitchell T. Lavin, whose "chump" was shared in June, had written, "I think it is in the only term in the British language which has 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 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 also each thought that they had invented ambigrams in the 1970s. Langdon and Kim are probably the two artists who have been most in charge of the popularization of ambigrams. John Langdon produced the first mirror image logo "Starship" in 1975. Robert Petrick, who designed the invertible Angel company logo in 1976, was also an early effect on ambigrams.
The initial known published mention of the word ambigram was by Hofstadter, who attributed the origin of the expressed word to conversations among a small group of friends during 1983-1984. The initial 1979 edition of Hofstadter's G?del, Escher, Bach featured two 3-D ambigrams on the cover.
Ambigrams became popular because of this of Dan Dark brown incorporating John Langdon's designs into the story of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the Disc release of the Angels & Demons movie contains a bonus chapter called "That 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 books as an homage to John Langdon.
In music, the Grateful Dead have used ambigrams several times, including on the albums American and Aoxomoxoa Beauty.
Inside the first series of the British isles show Trick or Treat, the show's variety and creator Derren Dark brown uses cards with rotational ambigrams. These credit cards can read either 'Technique' or 'Treat'.
Although the words spelled by most ambigrams are short long relatively, one Dvd and blu-ray 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 robot face whether looked at right part up or ugly. There are two such logos, one for an Autobot, and one for a Decepticon.
In 2015 iSmart's brand on one of its travel chargers travelled viral because upside-down it read "+Jews!" The ongoing company known that "...we learned a powerful lessons of what never to do when making a custom logo."
Types of Ambigram
Ambigrams are exercises in graphic design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and aesthetic perception. Some ambigrams include a marriage between their form and their content. Ambigrams usually belong to one of several categories:
3-Dimensional
- A design where an thing is provided that will appear to read several letters or words when looked at from different sides. Such designs can be made using constructive solid geometry.
Chain
- A design in which a phrase (or sometimes words) are interlinked, creating a repeating chain. Characters are usually overlapped meaning that a term will start partway through another word. Sometimes chain ambigrams are presented in the form of a circle.
Dihedral
- An all natural mirror-image ambigram consisting of numerical digits.
Figure-ground
- A design where the areas between the words of one term form another word.
Fractal
- A version of space-filling ambigrams where in fact the tiled phrase branches from itself and then shrinks in a self-similar manner, creating a fractal. See Scott Kim's fractal of the term "TREE" for an animated example.
Mirror-image
- A design that may be read when reflected in a mirror, as the same expression or phrase both ways usually. Ambigrams that form different words when viewed in the mirror are also known as glass door ambigrams, because they could be printed over a glass door to be read differently when entering or exiting.
Multi-Lingual
- An ambigram that may be read the best way in a single words and another real way in an alternative words. Multi-lingual ambigrams can exist in all of the various styles of ambigrams, with multi-lingual perceptual shift ambigrams being particularly striking.
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