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Does it not support a glyph? Just add it. Produces weird output? It's a bug, not a black box issue, just read the code. Want to use it or port it? It's just character substitution, go ahead.
A fun twist on the idea would be to generate an SVG path for each character and then apply some morphing to the path so character strokes are unique.
Is this different than a font?
I know a font can define unique ligatures for every character combo, but that would still mean the same combos like "fi" always look the same. Nice thing about this low-tech solution is that it can be trivially scaled up to introduce its own ligatures yet pick from them randomly, just at the expense of chore work (making the images).
Of course, at that point, it would be tempting to start looking for a more general solution.
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This is really neat! I love how it looks, and the selection of styles. A couple of times, using Style #2, it generated a bunch of loops at the end: Text: "The quick brown fox, etc" Image: https://pasteboard.co/Jn0O17a.png Still - nifty, and fun to play with. Makes me want to find an application / excuse to use it :)
The model was trained on a relatively small dataset which has few occurrences of the letter x, almost none of which are in cursive. As you've found, asking the model to write out an x in a cursive style can totally derail the generation process.
Like, how does one letter it doesn't know how to write well make it skip/mess up the following ones too? I mean, "derail" seems a fitting description to what I'm seeing, but how?
Is this different than a font?
Can a font pick randomly between different versions of the same glyph? I know a font can define unique ligatures for every character combo, but that would still mean the same combos like "fi" always look the same. Nice thing about this low-tech solution is that it can be trivially scaled up to introduce its own ligatures yet pick from them randomly, just at the expense of chore work (making the images). Of course, at…
Non-statistical methods of imitating handwriting are always fairly easy to identify as synthetic due to the uniformity of strokes and unnatural kerning (among other things). Even methods which incorporate random variations don't hide these artifacts sufficiently well. In my opinion, the only way to generate synthetic handwriting which is convincingly real is to use statistical methods (i.e. machine learning) to model…
How realistic is it to have no joined letters? Do many people really write large scale texts letter by letter with space between each? Sadly, the screenshot looks obviously artificial to me. Like handwriting fonts, I'd be very surprised if anybody thought it was really handwritten. It's not open source (because it is my handwriting (because my progressive MS means I can't do it manually)), but here's my hack: https:/…
Most of the people I know do this. Myself, I have never ever written with joined letters except when required to in school.
I consider it a leftover from the era of fountain pens (which are terrible UX for me as a left-handed writing LTR languages).
Even my signature is based on separate letters (tho blurred together as sigs usually do).
Non-statistical methods of imitating handwriting are always fairly easy to identify as synthetic due to the uniformity of strokes and unnatural kerning (among other things). Even methods which incorporate random variations don't hide these artifacts sufficiently well. In my opinion, the only way to generate synthetic handwriting which is convincingly real is to use statistical methods (i.e. machine learning) to model…
I don’t get this project. This is nothing special, you can very easily spot that every T is identical. You might as well just use a handwritten font.
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Works for me on iOS. Did you click the “write” button in the bottom right corner? It seems you have to tap it after any change in text or settings for it to update.
Yup, I did use the write button. It works on my laptop though. I checked the console and it was indeed throwing an error "Error: Backend name 'webgl' not found in registry"