computational form
2007 fall / final project
Young Sang Cho

kinetic typography 2

I continued developing midterm idea, kinetic typography.
Initially the idea began with a curiosity about the form of typography.
I wanted to simplify tyfaces as much as I can.
I set up a rule. A character can have two anchor points, and each anchor point can have two straight lines.
This was the minimum condition that makes readable typeface, I coud think of.
For midterm project, I used only 2D features like points and straight lines in 2D space.
Final project is, simply, 3D version of that.
Basically the rule and construction of typefaces are exactly same with midterm project.
But, with applying various 3D techniques like extrusion and revolving that I learned in the class, I wanted to make smoother shape and animation.