Another variation that flips along the X and Y axes. I also hooked it up with the pseudo POV tracking gimmick I did a couple years ago and tested on my old PH-1.
I sorted the entire CJK Unified Ideographs Unicode block based on each glyph's similarity to a pattern, in this case, a short line segment at different height, and created this wavy curve out of a line of glyphs.
Working on some automatic path generating and folding based on Chinese glyphs. Each path doesn't necessarily match with a calligraphic stroke...still, the result looks promising so far.
Was commissioned to create this installation in May this year. Its launch has been in a TBD state for a while due to construction onsite. Glad that everything is finally coming together by the end of 2019.
Linear interpolation between each path and its bounding box. To get the cw/ccw direction of a concave path is a little painful. It's funny that when I was a kid doing shape tweening in Flash, I never thought that one day I would program this myself...
Also, long before my algorithmic approach, artist Jia harnessed the same trick in her acrylic painting “The Chinese Version 001: Untitled” back in 2012.
Visual content is running on separate mini PC for each LCD column...It is quite a bummer that I'm not permitted to change the video output to a 4-panel setup...