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Sina Ahmadi closes out the #FaceInterface slides the best way: "these are some dolma my wife and I made."
January 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Sina Ahmadi closes out the #FaceInterface slides the best way: "these are some dolma my wife and I made."
Last but not least, SILICON Practitioner Sina Ahmadi on "Dolma-NLP: Developing Language Technologies for Middle Eastern Languages". Middle East is a linguistically complex place, rich diversity of languages. Only a few are officially recognized. Goal is sustainable lang tech community #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Last but not least, SILICON Practitioner Sina Ahmadi on "Dolma-NLP: Developing Language Technologies for Middle Eastern Languages". Middle East is a linguistically complex place, rich diversity of languages. Only a few are officially recognized. Goal is sustainable lang tech community #FaceInterface
Loïc Marleix: 18 basic shapes and dots. Shapes are important for pronunciation. Each shape symbol related to an emotion. Each open circle is a person. Orientation is a person. Dot means existence: dot inside means me, outside is someone else. #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Loïc Marleix: 18 basic shapes and dots. Shapes are important for pronunciation. Each shape symbol related to an emotion. Each open circle is a person. Orientation is a person. Dot means existence: dot inside means me, outside is someone else. #FaceInterface
Loïc Marleix: 2 years ago, tried to make LoCoS accessible again. Vectorized every symbol as accurately as possible, make pixel-perfect on grid. Ota said "Your project is great but your grid is wrong!!" Ota sent documentation to explain. #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Loïc Marleix: 2 years ago, tried to make LoCoS accessible again. Vectorized every symbol as accurately as possible, make pixel-perfect on grid. Ota said "Your project is great but your grid is wrong!!" Ota sent documentation to explain. #FaceInterface
Loïc Marleix: Yukio Ota studied at Tama Art University, traveled around Italy when in 1964 at Venice Academy of Fine Arts. 1964 Tokyo Olympics used pictograms for international communication. Taught at Tokyo Zokei University. 1971 presented LoCoS at UNESCO. Published in 1973. #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Loïc Marleix: Yukio Ota studied at Tama Art University, traveled around Italy when in 1964 at Venice Academy of Fine Arts. 1964 Tokyo Olympics used pictograms for international communication. Taught at Tokyo Zokei University. 1971 presented LoCoS at UNESCO. Published in 1973. #FaceInterface
Loïc Marleix: "The rediscovery of the Lovers Communication System". LoCoS is a conlang, international auxiliary language with words, verbs, grammar. "As easy as lovers are understanding each other". Pictoral system. Both meaning and sound. Designed by Yukio Ota. #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Loïc Marleix: "The rediscovery of the Lovers Communication System". LoCoS is a conlang, international auxiliary language with words, verbs, grammar. "As easy as lovers are understanding each other". Pictoral system. Both meaning and sound. Designed by Yukio Ota. #FaceInterface
Anushah Hossain: ISCII - analog to ASCII, Indian Standard Code for Information Exchange. Meant to represent major Indian scripts. Very expansive scope. Multi-script standard, for scripts derived from Brahmi, easy transliteration across scripts. #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Anushah Hossain: ISCII - analog to ASCII, Indian Standard Code for Information Exchange. Meant to represent major Indian scripts. Very expansive scope. Multi-script standard, for scripts derived from Brahmi, easy transliteration across scripts. #FaceInterface
Eason Lu: Local practitioners of Nüshu are not pleased with the developments. He Yanxin (original practitioner) refused to create any new Nüshu artifacts or engage with scholars. "The Nüshu scholars are striving to 'save' isn't what she 'used'." Problem is writing-centered approach. #FaceInterface
January 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Eason Lu: Local practitioners of Nüshu are not pleased with the developments. He Yanxin (original practitioner) refused to create any new Nüshu artifacts or engage with scholars. "The Nüshu scholars are striving to 'save' isn't what she 'used'." Problem is writing-centered approach. #FaceInterface
Eason Lu: Rooted in local dialects; variations between dialects of different towns, variation in sounds associated with particular characters. Embroidered onto materials like handkerchiefs and fans, helped them master letters and idiomatic expressions. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Eason Lu: Rooted in local dialects; variations between dialects of different towns, variation in sounds associated with particular characters. Embroidered onto materials like handkerchiefs and fans, helped them master letters and idiomatic expressions. #FaceInterface
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Text typeface still includes sharpness, saber-shaped elements, asymmetric serifs. Arch-shaped letterforms have baroque style. Heavy serifs. "Spacing is painful to normalize across the different scripts." #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Text typeface still includes sharpness, saber-shaped elements, asymmetric serifs. Arch-shaped letterforms have baroque style. Heavy serifs. "Spacing is painful to normalize across the different scripts." #FaceInterface
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Tried to simplify skoropys, make it more typographic. Inspired by skoropys, so hooks, knits, saber elements. Dynamic, assymetric, spiky. Core is speed, combination of geometry and cursiveness. Started with display font. Influence of historical sources #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Tried to simplify skoropys, make it more typographic. Inspired by skoropys, so hooks, knits, saber elements. Dynamic, assymetric, spiky. Core is speed, combination of geometry and cursiveness. Started with display font. Influence of historical sources #FaceInterface
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Half-ustav script, vyaz used in headings, Ukrainian antiqua (later used in book covers), skoropys (Cyrillic handwriting from baroque era). #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Half-ustav script, vyaz used in headings, Ukrainian antiqua (later used in book covers), skoropys (Cyrillic handwriting from baroque era). #FaceInterface
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Civil script underwent changes due to Peter I, some say this destroyed the distinctiveness of Ukrainian Cyrillic script. Unique shapes were crossed out. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Kateryna Korolevtseva: Civil script underwent changes due to Peter I, some say this destroyed the distinctiveness of Ukrainian Cyrillic script. Unique shapes were crossed out. #FaceInterface
John Berry: If you're in a numbered paragraph and have a footnote reference in the paragraph. If there's parentheses or a thin space, positioning of all dots is wrong. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
John Berry: If you're in a numbered paragraph and have a footnote reference in the paragraph. If there's parentheses or a thin space, positioning of all dots is wrong. #FaceInterface
John Berry: Another book project, how to make distinct quotes from Quran, commentary on translations, things can be flush left or right. Quranic Arabic text involves using some style variants to differentiate it. Got some bugs related to footnotes and numbering. #Faceinterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
John Berry: Another book project, how to make distinct quotes from Quran, commentary on translations, things can be flush left or right. Quranic Arabic text involves using some style variants to differentiate it. Got some bugs related to footnotes and numbering. #Faceinterface
John Berry: Different scripts can be treated in different but parallel ways. 30 years ago there wasn't a Chữ Nôm font, something was put together specifically for this book of poetry, it mostly worked. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
John Berry: Different scripts can be treated in different but parallel ways. 30 years ago there wasn't a Chữ Nôm font, something was put together specifically for this book of poetry, it mostly worked. #FaceInterface
John Berry: Parallel columns, treated the same, but multilingual text sometimes won't end up the same length. Long history of multiple scripts, since Renaissance. Page layout can vary. What's the flow through? How does a monolingual reader flip to next page? #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
John Berry: Parallel columns, treated the same, but multilingual text sometimes won't end up the same length. Long history of multiple scripts, since Renaissance. Page layout can vary. What's the flow through? How does a monolingual reader flip to next page? #FaceInterface
Marta Bernstein: Recommended tools for storing and organizing information. What really changed things was starting to use a database. Airtable, Dropbox, annotated PDFs, Zotero, Scrivener. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Marta Bernstein: Recommended tools for storing and organizing information. What really changed things was starting to use a database. Airtable, Dropbox, annotated PDFs, Zotero, Scrivener. #FaceInterface
Marta Bernstein: In-person research, go in person if you can. A lot of older archives aren't digital. "Go to archives. It's fun." Understanding of 19c Italian has been key. Type specimens were working tools, not built to survive. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Marta Bernstein: In-person research, go in person if you can. A lot of older archives aren't digital. "Go to archives. It's fun." Understanding of 19c Italian has been key. Type specimens were working tools, not built to survive. #FaceInterface
Min-Young Kim: Reading experience / eye movement is different across different scripts and languages. This is another factor to consider when designing text for AR/VR. Consider motion sickness. What can typography do to reduce discomfort? #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Min-Young Kim: Reading experience / eye movement is different across different scripts and languages. This is another factor to consider when designing text for AR/VR. Consider motion sickness. What can typography do to reduce discomfort? #FaceInterface
Min-Young Kim: Distance of text is a challenge, placement within a crowded space, sometimes over-layered with other things. Text can appear super close and you have to walk backwards (IRL) to read it, but this is hard in a tiny Japanese appartment. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Min-Young Kim: Distance of text is a challenge, placement within a crowded space, sometimes over-layered with other things. Text can appear super close and you have to walk backwards (IRL) to read it, but this is hard in a tiny Japanese appartment. #FaceInterface
Min-Young Kim: If you're playing Pokemon Go, screen is moving because you need to catch the Pokemon. Text is going to be fixed (pinned to a place). Reader could be moving but will mostly be fixed. What is optimal typographic canvas within AR/VR? #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Min-Young Kim: If you're playing Pokemon Go, screen is moving because you need to catch the Pokemon. Text is going to be fixed (pinned to a place). Reader could be moving but will mostly be fixed. What is optimal typographic canvas within AR/VR? #FaceInterface
Min-Young Kim: Experience of reading can vary across scripts, to AR research must be multilingual/multi-script. How does weight, letter-width, design, spacing affect the legibility on XR? How about suer movement? Screen/text moving or fixed? Is reader moving/fixed? #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Min-Young Kim: Experience of reading can vary across scripts, to AR research must be multilingual/multi-script. How does weight, letter-width, design, spacing affect the legibility on XR? How about suer movement? Screen/text moving or fixed? Is reader moving/fixed? #FaceInterface
Gerui Wang: Elongated rendering of character to capture tension and gravity of question about political crisis. Lingering stroke conveying weight of dilemma. Insight and bravery through bolder characters. Using a dry brush that splits during writing. Outliers are most expressive. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Gerui Wang: Elongated rendering of character to capture tension and gravity of question about political crisis. Lingering stroke conveying weight of dilemma. Insight and bravery through bolder characters. Using a dry brush that splits during writing. Outliers are most expressive. #FaceInterface
Gerui Wang: Pixelization of the images in the training data itself leads to information loss, compounded by subsequent factors. #FaceInterface
January 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Gerui Wang: Pixelization of the images in the training data itself leads to information loss, compounded by subsequent factors. #FaceInterface