AMBIGRAMMAGIC

The Zodiac.... Part 3

2006-08-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

PISCES

AQUARIUS

CAPRICORN

SAGGITARIUS

The Zodiac.... Part 2

2006-08-18T11:26:00.000-07:00

SCORPIO

LIBRA

VIRGO

LEO

The Zodiac....

2006-08-18T08:20:00.000-07:00

CANCER

GEMINI

TAURUS

ARIES

Ambi request for Prajakta

2006-08-17T10:31:00.000-07:00

Human/Divine

2006-08-08T09:05:00.000-07:00

World of Ambigram

2006-08-01T09:17:00.000-07:00

Done for Nagfa's AMbigram Challenge.

Time taken 2 days (1 for conceptualization, 1 for witing) .

The Seasons Inspiration

2006-07-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

The ispiration for the below Ambigram...as you can see - though similar they are not same.

The Seasons

2006-07-12T09:04:00.000-07:00

My first Mirror Ambigram - Winter, Spring, Summer , Autumn.

Tips : U need a mirror to do a Mirror Ambigram.

The Pandavas

2006-07-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

The Illustrious Pandavas - Yudhisthir, Bhim, Arjun, Nakul , Sahadev and their wife Draupadi.

Pavan Shinde

2006-07-06T11:37:00.000-07:00

The girl whose fave line is " Go to Hell"

Ambi request for Bharadwaj

2006-07-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

Brahma-Vishnu-Mahesh

2006-07-06T09:45:00.000-07:00

Tried something different. A Rotaional(60/45 degree) ambvigram of Brham Vishnu and Mahesh

Ganjan and Tithun

2006-07-06T09:39:00.000-07:00

Another Asymmetric ambi for another couple

Ajay and Rahul

2006-07-06T08:48:00.000-07:00

Old ones. Easy ones.

Ajay Rao - one of the wittiest and sweetest bastards around, almost as sweet and witty as me. Hers an Ambi for Ajay.

Rahul - Done on request . A cool guy I met on Orkut.

Ishani and Pankaj - My Best Friends

2006-07-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

Did these long time back for my Best frnds Ishani and Pankaj.

Saifi and Neeli

2006-07-06T08:24:00.000-07:00

My first Asymmetric amni. Done for my Orkut frnd from Pakistan - Saifi and his gf Neeli. Not that good but still being my 1st has some senti value atttached (boo hoo )

Ambigram for Rajdeep.

2006-07-05T10:23:00.000-07:00

Our name is the gretest sign of our Ego. So heres an Ambigram for my name.

Types of Ambigrams

2006-07-05T10:05:00.000-07:00

Rotational
A design that presents several instances of words when rotated through a fixed angle. This is usually 180 degrees, but rotational ambigrams of other angles exist, for example 90 or 45 degrees.
The 180 degerees rotational Ambigram is the commonest form of Ambigram and is often called “Inversion”

Reflection
A design that can be read when reflected or viewed through a mirror, usually as the same word or phrase both ways, but not always. Reflection can be along a Horizontal or a Vertical Axis.

Figure/Ground
A design in which the spaces between the letters of one word form another word.

Containment
Any word where part of which is made up of another word. Self-Containment refers to a word which contains one or more copies of itself.

Chain
A design where a word (or sometimes words) are interlinked forming a repeating chain.Sometimes chain ambigrams are presented in the form of a circle. Extensions of the 'chain'-type ambigram are The Web and Space-Filling. In the former the letters are woven together on more than one plane like a mesh or tapestry, while Space-filling which is nothing but tiling the chain ambigrams to fill the 2-dimensional plane.

3-dimensional
A design where an object is presented that will appear to read several letters or words when viewed from different angles.

Perceptual shift or Oscilation
A design with no symmetry but can be read as two different words depending on how the curves of the letters are interpreted.

Spinonym
A word that is made up of only one shape; the single glyphis rotated and reflected to form each individual letter.

Swap
A design where two halves of a word are swapped and form a different word.

Natural
A natural ambigram is a word that possesses one or more of the above symmetries when written in its natural state, and requiring no typographic styling. For example the words "pod", "suns" and "solos" are natural rotational ambigrams while the word "bud" is a natural reflection(horizontal) ambigram..