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--- ## Notes Buy the book here or check for a used one. Some cool words: Aegilops, cremnophobia, bierstube, gymnoplast, galactic, eunoia ### Things to try maybe one day - [x] could do lines from poetry in this style (it works by just pasting in the text in the text box) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43311/sadie-and-maud - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42892/fireflies-in-the-garden - [ ] repeating the same phrases with different ordering of letters around the circle? - [ ] have ordering be based on regular shape for each word? - [ ] use parallel lines instead of circle? - [ ] spring layout of resulting “word networks”? - [ ] what would the equivalent be for sentences? - [ ] use types of letters? e.g. vowels/consonants - [ ] or phonemes? see rhymes visually? ### Some links - https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/huingi/the_visual_history_of_the_evolution_of_the/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kGuN8WIGNc - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet - https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/xh9ukp/what_is_the_longest_word_containing_consecutive/ - https://xkcd.com/2794/ Could search for words that have interesting geometric/visual properties: - longest without any crossings - longest line / longest line per letter - most imbalanced on right / left - largest area - symmetrical - rings / no dangling lines - purely clockwise / counter-clockwise - group words that have the same shape ---
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