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6 years ago This is amazing.
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:41 PM Liza Daly notifications@github.com wrote:
A Physical Book_ makes a digitized book “physical” by rendering it in a simulated space where properties like gravity, friction, and velocity all apply. The program randomly perturbs the letters, then takes a snapshot at a point in time, re-assembling the images into a new, “un-digitized” book.
The raw, uncorrected scanned text of The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909) https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-up-to-date-sandwich-book-400-ways-to-make-a-sandwich-1909/ is re-imagined as this 251 page (50,964 words) book:
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/badc96552576b49ee159e519a58a6b7110b99712/68747470733a2f2f6c697a6164616c792e6769746875622e696f2f612d706879736963616c2d626f6f6b2f6578616d706c65732f73616d706c65372e706e67
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d12216f578d4e52c29c9d85e42766e37975c6c39/68747470733a2f2f6c697a6164616c792e6769746875622e696f2f612d706879736963616c2d626f6f6b2f6578616d706c65732f73616d706c65382e706e67
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d4f9deb04ef9fdfd11875a650b5acce84039ac16/68747470733a2f2f6c697a6164616c792e6769746875622e696f2f612d706879736963616c2d626f6f6b2f6578616d706c65732f73616d706c6531312e706e67
A Physical Book uses the web-based game engine Phaser https://phaser.io and a Selenium script calls the program 500 times to load all the chapters in succession and take a screenshot:
Full 50,000+ word, 250 page PDF https://www.dropbox.com/s/lphwafia5qskokt/nanogenmo2017-lizadaly.pdf?dl=0 (55MB)
More implementation details, examples, and source code at https://github.com/lizadaly/a-physical-book
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A Physical Book makes a digitized book “physical” by rendering it in a simulated space where properties like gravity, friction, and velocity all apply. The program randomly perturbs the letters, then takes a snapshot at a point in time, re-assembling the images into a new, “un-digitized” book.
The raw, uncorrected scanned text of The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909) is re-imagined as this 251 page (50,964 words) book:
Implementation
A Physical Book uses the web-based game engine Phaser and a Selenium script calls the program 500 times to load all the chapters in succession and take a screenshot:
Full 50,000+ word, 250 page PDF (55MB)
More implementation details, examples, and source code at https://github.com/lizadaly/a-physical-book