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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

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Awesome, but fails with accents etc. A case for polish: „Zażółć gęślą jaźń” - fails in many gunny ways. I also tried emojis - of course it failed, but now I’m super curious how would hand written emojis look like :D

Same with languages like Portuguese and French, it did not got any of them right.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

#73

I think the legibility slider can go quite a bit lower. None of the models are anywhere close to real world illegibility.

Needs a "doctor" mode.

Isn't it interesting that regardless of the culture, every nation seems to have "doctor" mode writing?

I wonder how it comes to be.

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

#75
post #47

I think a lot about how the written English language has been altered by technology. Latin majuscule letterforms were designed, AFAICT, to be easy to chisel into stone. Miniscule letterforms were later invented because they were faster to write, enabling monks to copy manuscripts more quickly. Printing press manufacturers saved money by getting rid of letters that could be replaced by combining others (the thorn), al…

It gets even more intricate! Until the 15th century or so, there were dozens of different styles of Latin script optimised for slightly different writing technologies [0], some so different to what we’ve now converged on that I hesitate to call them the same script. Our current handwritten lowercase letters developed around fountain pens and quills — something I realised when I started using fountain pens and realised that lowercase writing suddenly became much more natural. On the other hand, our printed lowercase letters have changed little since Charlemagne standardised his miniscule script for maximum legibility with a broad-edged nib. Meanwhile, in Germany, blackletter styles developed for fast writing with the same nib; this eventually ended up as Sütterlin [1], which looks quite different to the script we’re currently using. In England blackletter developed into ‘secretary hand’ instead [2], which again looks quite different. And of course there’s more! [0] is the best overview I’ve found.

(Thinking about this I do often wonder what a form of handwriting optimised for the ballpoint pen would look like… probably quite different to our current handwriting styles!)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100403062849/http://guindo.pnt...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_hand

Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

#77

My first name contains one of the fewest used letters of the alphabet and in first position nonetheless: Xavier Let me tell you: the training data did not contain that many X to begin with :D The Xs at best look like Ts, at worst like malformed Os. Always funny to find the blind spots of some piece of tech.

It's the same with capital Z.
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