¶ This started out as my graduation project at the university. My research’s focus was to investigate how to go beyond the simple linear interpolation and apply curves in the interpolation of letterforms. During this period, I have developed two visualisation tools for higher order interpolation. I also gave a short talk and published a paper on the subject, in the context of the 10th Typography Meeting.
¶ The first one focuses on what happens behind the curtains. This tool displays an instance of the interpolation of two master glyphs, interpolated by cubic Bézier curves that have their control points randomly placed by an algorithm. These curves can be set with different ranges of randomness and the visualisation of each one of their elements can be toggled on or off. A slider allows the user to control the instance of the interpolation that is shown.
¶ The second tool takes a string of text inputted by the user and displays an instance of their interpolation, generated with the same randomness algorithm as the previous tool.