Sunday, December 14, 2014

[bturzrrl] Recursive characters

The way Chinese characters can be constructed by placing one or more other characters into a frame-like other character is an interesting way to encode arbitrarily large quantities of information, given enough resolution.  It's not linear but a tree.  Perhaps sentence syntax.

What are the leaves? What are the internal nodes (frames)?

Reminiscent of heraldry.

Various ways of stacking things and dividing up space.  Constrain to avoid too extreme aspect ratio.

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