Glyphshift

Glyphshift is an interactive / generative artwork. It started as a feasibility study on a sequence of line segments self-adapt to different shapes through folding and stretching back in 2020. Its fundamental algorithm focuses on finding the optimal breaking joint and assigning a bend to each segment to create intermediate states between the shapes in a mesmerizing manner. This algorithm is later applied to texts, making each glyph in a word/sentence constantly shifting into its neighboring glyph, while collectively maintaining their readability.

A prototype outcome of Glyphshift is used as my contribution in the GAFA 70th Anniversary Poster Invitation Exhibition.

Glyphshift is programmed using Processing, and is formally debuted at the group exhibition Paratext curated by Clara Che Wei Peh at Ames Yavuz in Singapore.