“Fascinating”
Posted by SLAMBIGRAMS on March 27, 2011 · 2 Comments
This one is special. I’m happy to introduce my first slide-ambigram. A slide-ambigram is built of two copies from the same design. If you slide a copy of your design to the left or right the final word appears – it’s magical!
The inventor of this type of ambigram is Scott Kim, an amazing clever designer of visual puzzles. Scott did a cool slide-ambigram of the name John Maeda, you must take a look at it!!! His work and ideas are really fascinating. Fascinating also was the word for the latest Quick Draw at ambigram.com. Scott motivated me to try my first slide-ambigram on the same word that he took. That’s the best way to explore the process of slide-ambigrams.
I’m really happy with the result. You could see an animated version right here.
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Amazing. Just. So. Cool!
These are almost code-like in their minimalism. I mean, you could send the unshifted version of the design to someone, and they could look right at it and see… nothing. Give it a little slide, and presto, the entire word appears!
I wonder if this could be a solution to the CAPTCHA problem. A human could figure out the shifted word, but a computer… not likely.
We could have solved one of the web’s biggest security problems in our spare time!
Thanks Editor,
you are right. The funny thing is that you create something, that when it is finished, means nothing, lol.
Only in combination it makes sense.
I also thought about the usage of slide-ambigrams, like guerilla-marketing ideas or James Bond movies or a CAPTCHA system. Who knows what the time brings …