Amy Goodchild

This 8×10” plotter art features “Meaningful Nonsense” text written in a spiral in the artist’s coded handwriting. Both the text and the handwriting are created using algorithms written by the artist in Javascript. The piece is drawn onto paper by an Axidraw plotter.

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Coding My Handwriting

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Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.

Generating the Alphabet

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My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean a large file size. Additionally, I don’t want a visual element of the project to be s