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Originally Posted by crazykay  ok possibly an extremely stupid question coming up but since im to lazy to search the web or grab a dictionary ill ask here.. what is an ambigram?... |
Not stupid at all...I had no idea, so...
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An animation of a rotationally symmetric ambigram for the word "ambigram"
An
ambigram, also sometimes known as an
inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. The text can also consist of a few words, and the text spelled out in the other direction or orientation is often the same, but can also be a different text.
Douglas R. Hofstadter describes an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings into the selfsame set of curves."
According to practitioner
John Langdon, ambigrams were independently invented by himself and by
Scott Kim in the 1970s.
[1] Kim used the name
Inversions as the title of his first collection in 1981. The first published reference to "ambigram" was by Hofstadter, who attributes the origin of the word to conversations among a small group of friends during 1983–1984.
[1] The 1999 edition of Hofstadter's
Gödel, Escher, Bach features a 3-D ambigram on the cover.
Ambigrams became much more popular as a result of
Dan Brown incorporating them into the plot of his bestseller,
Angels & Demons; Langdon produced ambigrams that were used for the book cover, and a link to his website from Brown's meant he was "suddenly inundated" with commissions.
[1].In fact the name Robert Langdon (the hero from the novel) is also an appreciation to Mr. John Langdon