WORDS, IN ANOTHER FORM
Wordflight
A thought becomes a trail.
Let it go. See the gallery
From Possibility Vertigo, a Project Nothing essay. Or write something of your own.
The glyph wall
Every word, held still. Its translation sits beside it. Edit the text above and press Play words to make a new wall.
Write a few words to begin.
Make it a picture
Your words as one still image, to keep or to share. Pictures of your own words are small: 1080 × 1350.
Prints are not for sale yet. When they are, this is where you will order one: printed and sent to you, at full size.
Can a word become a gesture?
Every letter has a fixed place on this QWERTY keyboard. A word connects those places, in order. Wide curves soften the turns for drawing; the underlying letter positions do not change. The brush paints that path, then releases it into the air. Replaying the same text with the same settings produces the same motion and colours.
This first study is about shapes and learning. It does not recognise hands or measure communication speed yet. Hide captions to inspect how much the shape tells you. Scroll down for the still glyphs with translations. Timelapse holds each shape, then crossfades into the next; the blended shapes are transitions, not new words.
Letters A–Z are supported. Accents are folded to their base letter; other symbols stay in captions and break the stroke, rather than silently joining across them. Repeated letters make a small loop. A single letter makes a dot. The start has a ring and the finish has a filled dot. Layout and spelling both matter.
Reduced motion shows a static word at a time. Play advances through the words; pause stops it.