• 1D Cellular Automaton
  • "ex-libris" in gears
  • mark/wilson ambigram
  • wilson/mark ambigram
  • handwriting font

Custom Bookplate -- Finished

I coded a custom bookplate in raw PostScript. The initial idea was to render "ex-libris" as gear wheels using the charpath/flattenpath idea, which I explored first as a diversion in "happy".
It took quite a bit of work, I needed to give the gears just two spokes to make the text legible, play around with drawing order, shades of gray etc, but I really like the way it turned out. You can see a closeup of the gear effect here.
I did the "mark wilson" as a mirror image ambigram I designed way back in high school.
The border is a 1D Cellular Automaton, evolving the binary representation of "ex-libris mark wilson fecit 2008".
The small text in the middle (added in case the rest isn't legible!) is done in my hand-writing font. The whole thing is a little over 1000 lines of PS code.

See also:
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in a book

I made a movie based on this.

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  1. iBos & TeKaha (60 months ago | reply)

    That is marvellous -- I'm particularly fond of the 1DCA border.

  2. jaffemms1 (60 months ago | reply)

    Dear Mark,
    I like your bookplate design.Would it be okay for me to mention it in the bookplate blog ?
    Lew Jaffe
    bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com

  3. funnypolynomial (60 months ago | reply)

    Lew:Of course!

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