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	Art21 - The Alphabet Synthesis Machine (Introduction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Précis: The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations.
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is comprised of two software systems: an interactive client-side applet, which allows users to create and evolve their abstract letterforms, and a server-side archiving system which stores the user creations as downloadable TrueType fonts.
		Whereas the ASM uses a physical simulation in tandem with an evolution algorithm to produce "handwritten" forms, Matt Chisholm's "Alphabet Soup" project uses a shape grammar based on the structure of the Roman/Cyrillic/Greek/IPA alphabets in order to synthesize novel "punch-cut" glyphs.
	alphabet.tmema.org (1323 words)

	dbqp: visualizing poetics: Alphabetc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Discussions of the first gods, the bicameral mind, nature as both an alphabet and ritual of language, the five elements, gnosticism, gematria, kabbalah, and the uses of letters, words and images, all of language, to create and destroy the wor(l)d should also be part of the discussion.
		Alphabets do not come about this way...to call a scipted set of glyphs an alphabet is to invest it with signifcant power and meaning.
		a tradition that is not advanced by the advanced turing machines of the 21st c., at least as far as i have seen.
	dbqp.blogspot.com /2005/05/alphabetc.html (1915 words)

	Art \| Cowlix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thinking Machine 4: A chess opponent that draws out the lines of influence, power, and attack as it plots.
		Machines influence self-conception, expression, social perception, and perception of responsibility or action.
		By accessing and vitalizing the interplay of people and machines through custom interaction design and psychotherapeutic techniques, a social awareness is brought out and individuals are invited to reinvent their own existence.
	www.cowlix.com /site/taxonomy/term/2/9 (1302 words)

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		The word Alphabet is derived from the Latin “Alphabetum,” which is formed from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, and themselves borrowed from the Semitic letters aleph and beth.
		The A is under the attack of an avalanche as one side crumbles down upon itself, the F bursts into flames as it recreates fire, and the T trips over an unnoticed period.
		An Alliterative Alphabet Aimed at Adult Abecedarians was written in 1947, and seems to be living proof that Americans don’t read as much with the invention of television and radio.
	www.mnstate.edu /arnar/497studentpapers/Earley.doc (1624 words)

	snarkout: becoming alien
		There are a heck of a lot of alphabets out there, and they all seem just slightly more complex than those I managed to create with the Synthesis Machine.
		Languages, and even alphabets, are not static; communicating with the future needs to be reduced to something that doesn't involve words, as in physicist and s.f.
		Some of the scripts in the Alphabet Synthesis Machine archives are beautiful and some even look like plausible scripts, but nothing really seems quite dirty enough; there isn't any history embedded in those letters.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2002/02/17 (415 words)

	Collection 2 of fonts produced using The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
		These fonts, produced by William Overington using the Alphabet Synthesis Machine, are available for free download from this webspace by kind permission of Mr Golan Levin.
		All of these fonts contain abstract characters which can be accessed using the letters A to Z and a to z.
		Perhaps some of the designs from the five fonts in this series could be produced in their respective colours inset into large panes of colourless glass in the sides of buildings, thereby allowing clear daylight to enter with an artistic flavour.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~ngo/font0200.htm (574 words)

	lightcycle.org \| weblog archives for July 2002
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine allows you to evolve a set of characters and download the result as a TrueType font.
		It runs so quickly on a modern machine that all meaning is lost; today it looks like a great piece of dynamic art.
		The "walking forest machine" (picture) is a six-legged, walking harvester vehicle built by a Finnish subsidiary of John Deere.
	www.lightcycle.org /2002_07.php (510 words)

	Some founts produced using The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive art work at http://alphabet.tmema.org on the web, created for Art21 and PBS by Golan Levin with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis.
		These founts, produced by William Overington using the Alphabet Synthesis Machine, are available for free download from this webspace by kind permission of Mr Golan Levin.
		All of these founts contain abstract characters which can be accessed using the letters A to Z and a to z.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~ngo/founts1.htm (529 words)

	conalphs' Journal
		The alphabet is nearly complete, by the way...thank you, GlyphMaker.
		I started with a bunch of common objects and their names in my language and drew out enough for all of the phonemes in my language, a word starting with a different sound to correspond to each phoneme.
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is a decent Javaprogram which will generate a randomized alphabet.
	community.livejournal.com /conalphs (1210 words)

	Art:21 . Season One . Online Project \| PBS
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive software artwork by Golan Levin with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis.
		The Machine allows its users to breed and explore the abstract and evocative forms of personalized "nonsense alphabets"—coherent sets of abstract, glyphlike forms which might resemble the plausible writing systems of alien civilizations or unfamiliar human societies.
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork created for Art21 and PBS by Golan Levin with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis, the Alphabet Synthesis Machine is a co-production of Art21, Inc., New York City, and The Arts Company, Cambridge, MA.
	www.pbs.org /art21/series/seasonone/online.html (201 words)

	The Alphabet Synthesis Machine \| disobey.com
		The ALPHABET SYNTHESIS MACHINE is an aid to explorers of the liminal territory between familiarity and chaos.
		An interactive Java applet, the Machine invites you to evolve the letterforms of a personalized "alien alphabet": the possible writing system of your own imaginary civilization.
		The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
	www.disobey.com /node/1214 (151 words)

	Rhizome.org: Golan Levin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations.
		The abstract alphabets produced by the Machine can be downloaded as PC-format Tru...
		The Audiovisual Environment Suite (AVES) is a set of five interactive systems which allow people to create and perform abstract animation and synthetic sound in real time.
	rhizome.org /member.rhiz?user_id=1001766 (371 words)

	Ten Reasons Why: June 2002 Archives
		Pair that with the Alphabet Synthesis Machine -- and, hell, with the Hero Machine!
		The The Alphabet Synthesis Machine (Introduction) takes an initial glyph that you provide and evolves a graphically coherent set of symbols around that glyph.
		The Hero Machine takes me back to those 11-year old winter afternoons when I would spend an entire day making up super-heroes, super-villians, and complex histories for them.
	www.tenreasonswhy.com /weblog/archives/2002/06 (2544 words)

	EDUCATION PLANET - 55,000 Lesson Plans including 119 Web Sites related to Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine - Précis: The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations.
		The abstract alphabets produced by the Machine can be downloaded as PC-...
		Tibetan Alphabet * - see what Tibetan writing looks like, from the Tibet: Roof of the World site.
	www.educationplanet.com /search/Language_Arts/Languages/Alphabet?startval=40 (415 words)

	Off In The Tall Weeds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine - found via Byzantium's Shores
		The Synthesis Machine takes a glyph that you provide, and generates an entire alphabet.
		The misplaced link is to a site that will generate a free font based on your handwriting - you have to fill in a character grid, scan it in, and email it to them.
	home.earthlink.net /~swheeler843/News/2004/01/20040123.html (190 words)

	Comments on 15727 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1:53 AM "The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one's own imaginary civilizations."
		Seems this would take some work to generate significantly different alphabets.
		If the Narnians had wound up using this alphabet (scroll down), I think Aslan would have been been severely pissed off.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/15727 (183 words)

	Lost and Found: Bits and Pieces of Life
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine generates an alphabet from a glyph that you draw and...
		but why do I have to when I can get a machine built of Legos to do it for me? Check out the CubeSolver.
		It never occurred to me that maybe I don't take the Rock Paper Scissors game as seriously as others until I came across The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide.
	www.cs.caltech.edu /~dalryaug/blog/index.php?content=2002_02_01_archive.php (925 words)

	Webcrumbs
		I remember seeing something about this at Harvard some years back (probably buried deep in my blog archives).
		10:00:54 PM Art21 - The Alphabet Synthesis Machine 9:46:17 PM A List Apart: Web Standards and Tools: "If web development tools like Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Adobe's GoLive and Microsoft's FrontPage (among countless other applications) do not generate standards-compliant code, the work of convincing the browser vendors to support standards will have been wasted.
		The creation of content will be trapped in a shell-legible only in a handful of browsers, locking out millions worldwide.
	radio.weblogs.com /0101197/2002/03/22.html (143 words)

	Free Calligraphy Printable Alphabets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alphabet calligraphy free printable calligraphy Alphabet Scrapbook Alphabets Decorative Lettering, http- www.just-find.com c callig
		alphabet alphabet letters printable cursive handwriting alphabet free calligraphy alphabet english to japanese alphabet animal alphabet
		Download and print alphabet patterns for creating letter templates for lettering on craft projects.
	www.shnoo10.info /Free-Calligraphy-Printable-Alphabets.html (566 words)

	Glosses.net : makeup your mind » 2002 » February » 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It starts with the Alphabet Synthesis Machine: a fascinating program that lets you create and implement your own alphabet.
		Now let’s see if I can find a conlang-word generator to render the job of a Maker of Languages totally obsolete.
		I remember the fun I had with the Omelan alphabets… ah, to be in the high school again and to have all this spare time….
	glosses.net /archives/2002/02/19 (533 words)

	Font creation programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		(Alphabet Synthesis Machine is a co-production of Art21, Inc., New York City, and The Arts Company, Cambridge, MA.) It has a
		It had a fantastic range of zoom, the bezier tools worked intelligently, it had a superb background layer facilty and it had none of those stupid sound effects.
		Jakob also wrote (and is now selling) an X-Windows font editor for SUN machines (soon for Linux machines as well).
	cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/editors.html (6388 words)

	Agyris - Fantasy RPG Campaign Setting - Free and Universal Gaming
		Then, out of nowhere, I discovered the Alphabet Synthesis Machine, and I was able to whip all of these fonts out in little more than an evening.
		The fonts produced by the Alphabet Synthesis Machine (ASM) are TrueType fonts for the Windows PC.
		If you are a Mac user of an older OS, you must first convert the font to the Mac TrueType format (see the instructions below); you can then place the font in the "Fonts" folder in your System Folder.
	www.agyris.net /v3/files/fonts.asp (1059 words)

	The Daily Ping: Create Your Own Language (3/11/2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I was trying to find the link for the kinda'-cool-if-pretty-geeky Alphabet Synthesis Machine, when I stumbled across a bunch of sites from a subculture I didn't even know existed: language creators.
		Apparently, creating a "model language" is like playing with a model train set.
		especially when I took the time to use the Alphabet Synthesis Machine to generate my own alphabet, download it, and install it as a font on my PC.
	www.dailyping.com /archive/2002/03/11 (670 words)

	mooninaquarius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As I was playing with it, I thought it would be a neat challenge to make the unrecognizeable into something more readible....
		I took the letterforms from my synthesised font and used them to recreate the latin alphabet again.
		But I highly recommend you try synthesizing your own font at the Machine!
	mooninaquarius.homestead.com /myfonts.html (825 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Temple > Alphabet Synthesis Machine > Reply
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	Ishbadiddle
		I’m in a blogging funk this week, so this may be it for me, but it’s pretty darn cool.
		Make your own alphabet is the high-concept description for The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
		My sample’s pictured below, and you can download it from The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
	www.geocities.com /ishbadiddle/blogarchive/2002_02_24_blogarchive.html (3261 words)

	lorbus: Discovering New Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an online font creator.
		It allows you to create and design the font of an...
		It allows you to create and design the font of an imaginary civilization.
	www.lorbus.com /archives/000158.html (92 words)

	blizzle.com - pop!
		Anyway, as noted above you seed this random character generator with your own penmanship, change variables and it will create a font for you based on constant evolution.
		I have no idea how it computes the letters, or how to make a semi-legible english alphabet, but that's not the point.
		So go play, invent your own written language and share with us.
	blizzle.com /index.php?uid=706 (234 words)

	VismiT BLOG - - - - - - - - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Suppose what is so nice if we can make our website in my own font which looks like my own handwriting.
		Bought a new SONY Vaio Notebook(PCG-GR370), one of the Dream Machines I always wanted to buy and now it is mine.
		It is a Vaio GR300 Series Notebook made for speed, portability, versatility, and high-end graphics functions, all in a sleek little package that's as professional-looking as it is functional.
	www.khapre.org /blog/archives/2002_03_01_index.aspx (641 words)

	Dungeon Crawlers :: Wargamers - Above Ground & Below Ground
		I am working on some pieces that I want to add scripts in various languages in and I am looking for web sites or downloads of examples of writing styles from the fantasy or sci-fi worlds.
		For example, maybe a website that has the elven alphabet from Lord of the Rings, or a website with an alphabet from the Star Wars or Star Trek movies/books/tv shows.
		I tried looking but could not find anything that would help me. I'd even consider buying a book if anyone knew of one.
	www.dungeoncrawlers.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=index&action=viewtopic&topic=382&forum=11&start=0 (368 words)

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