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March 13, 2005
Collective Type, Wikis, and Eigenmedia
Check out Jeff Weir's Collective Type Project, an attempt at font design by committee. This is cool for several reasons:
(1) It's collaborative--the author just put up a framework and let people do whatever they wanted with the site
(2) It's further proof of the viability of the laissez faire Wiki concept
(3) It's robust against vandalism - the training examples for 9 contain graffiti, Kanji, roman numerals, and various styles, yet still comes out looking like the numeral "9"
(4) The content is instantly re-purposable:
This reminds me of Brian Whitman's Eigenradio project, which extracts the most statistically distinct components of entire songs as new compositions. It's interesting to compare the two approaches and note that Collective Type yields recognizable results, whereas Eigenradio's songs sound like meaningless noise. These projects take two opposing approaches--one takes the mean of its inputs whereas the other favors the most unique inputs.
Posted by Devon at March 13, 2005 07:50 PM
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