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Bernard Sim
Inner circle
Singapore
1084 Posts
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Posted: May 14, 2004 6:51am
I first got to know this from Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons".
Check the site http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/index.html
Bernard Sim
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Dave1216
Loyal user
262 Posts
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Posted: Jun 15, 2004 2:32pm
Does anyone know how I can get one of these created with my name? Are there people out there who offer this service ?
Thanks,
David Corsaro
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owen.daniel
Special user
England
955 Posts
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Posted: Jun 17, 2004 3:43pm
Awesome!
I have just finished reading "The Da Vinci Code" (also by Dan Brown), sounds like I had better start "Angels and Demons"!
Owen
I find critics on the whole a pretty unneccessary bunch of people. We don't need critics to tell the audiences what to think.
Harold Pinter
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polstein
Regular user
109 Posts
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Posted: Jun 18, 2004 9:49pm
I'm looking into the book now - amazing the stuff you learn browsing the Café.
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hitmouse
Loyal user
248 Posts
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Posted: Jul 2, 2004 4:13am
blimey that brings back memories. I remember reading about Scott Kim's ambigrams in Omni magazine in the late 1970s or early 80s.
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 3:02pm
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On 2004-06-15 14:32, Dave1216 wrote:
Does anyone know how I can get one of these created with my name? Are there people out there who offer this service ?
Thanks,
David Corsaro
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Well, for the fun of it - I've made dozens of such things for kids etc.. - I had a go at your name. See the result below after 10 trials in 15 minutes : I simply write a lot on the paper, and this JPEG is the result I liked most, scanned and a bit smoothed (I can send you a larger file if you want).
Don't expect me to do the final touches to make it really nice, though, for me the "fun" part is over with such a JPEG 
I hope the way I choosed to make the "r" in this JPEG is understood, I'm never sure about foreign way of writing (I'm French).
Click here to view attached image.
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Dave1216
Loyal user
262 Posts
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 3:50pm
Emmanuel -
That looks great. Thank you very much.
This goes along with my theory that most magicians are the nicest people you would ever want to meet (please note that I did say "most.")
Dave
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MisterE21
Elite user
Salt Lake City, UT
426 Posts
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Posted: Sep 4, 2004 1:52am
I have been playing with these since reading "Angels & Demons" (which, for the record, I found to be a better book than the Da Vinci code, but that's neither here nor there).
below is a "Magic" that I did. I found the basic M/CIG letter form somewhere on the net (I believe they had done the word magically or magick or...something) modified it, altered the A and gave it a slightly more graffiti styled feel...
Dave, I'll try to play with your name this weekend. Do you prefer it to be "David" or "Dave"?
E
Click here to view attached image.
Your EFFECT is only as good as its AFFECT.
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Dave1216
Loyal user
262 Posts
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Posted: Sep 4, 2004 3:15pm
Dave or David. Doesn't matter. Whichever makes the ambigram look cooler
Thanks
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Bernard Sim
Inner circle
Singapore
1084 Posts
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Posted: Sep 9, 2004 11:44pm
Will my name be a challenge?
Bernard
Bernard Sim
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Sep 10, 2004 8:07am
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On 2004-09-04 01:52, MisterE21 wrote:
below is a "Magic" that I did. I found the basic M/CIG letter form somewhere on the net |
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The basic form you refer to was done by... Scott Kim himself, for the now defunct French magazine for magicians called "Imagik"
One image of the logo can be found for instance on :
http://magic.callways.com/c29.html
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Sep 10, 2004 5:44pm
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On 2004-09-09 23:44, Bernard Sim wrote:
Will my name be a challenge?
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Well I'm not satisfied with the result, but here it is...
Click here to view attached image.
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Bernard Sim
Inner circle
Singapore
1084 Posts
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Posted: Sep 10, 2004 9:25pm
Hmmm... interesting. Will have to really look at it to know it. Thanks!
Bernard Sim
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Sep 26, 2004 7:05pm
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On 2004-09-04 15:15, Dave1216 wrote:
Dave or David. Doesn't matter. Whichever makes the ambigram look cooler
Thanks
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Just by curiosity, did you receive any other ambigrams ? In case yes, can you share them ?
[Each ambigram seen once is one more tool available for a future "ambigram challenge"]
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nums
Veteran user
I have a life, or I would have more than
364 Posts
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Posted: Dec 25, 2004 8:12pm
MisterE21 or EmmanuelM Your work is great care to try another?.... Here is my name and the mane of my company....
Jeff Teate or Jeffrey Allen Teate
Nothin' Up My Sleeve
Jeff
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Rob Johnston
Inner circle
Utah
2060 Posts
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Posted: Dec 29, 2004 3:08pm
Amazing book!
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable." - Margot Fonteyn
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Rob Johnston
Inner circle
Utah
2060 Posts
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Posted: Jan 3, 2005 3:14pm
Well I sat down and made an ambigram of my name. I still have to clean it up a bit, but it already looks great.
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable." - Margot Fonteyn
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Jan 15, 2005 4:54pm
So here is the "JeffTeate" ambigram I came up with...
I tried differently but in the end I could not avoid the "one-letter-by-one-letter ambigram" which are not the nicest ones, but hey, at least there's something to see.
Click here to view attached image.
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nums
Veteran user
I have a life, or I would have more than
364 Posts
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Posted: Jan 15, 2005 9:13pm
EmmanuelM, Thank you oh so much, with your permission I am going to have that embroidered onto a hat. Also I got your E-mail. To second another above "Most magi are the friendliest and creative among the human race"
Jeff
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Jonathan Townsend
Eternal Order
Ossining, NY
25255 Posts
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Posted: Jan 18, 2005 4:07pm
This thread turned out to be a pleasant surprise. EmmanualM, thanks!
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Quinn
Inner circle
with an outer triangle
1946 Posts
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Posted: Jan 20, 2005 1:10pm
I just discovered this thread a couple days ago, and have now wasted an embarrassing number of hours playing with ambigrams and trying to do them myself. I would like to simultaneously thank the posters here for the links and images, and curse them for introducing yet another seductive time-suck into my life. 
I'll post a couple when I get a chance to scan them.
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rvigon
Loyal user
uk
266 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2005 12:36am
I have not read the book only read da vinci coads but what is there context in the book and what would a ambigram of ricki vigon look like does it have more that one possible look
"No brilliance is required in magic, just determination and relatively clean fingernails."
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2005 8:08am
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On 2005-01-21 00:36, rvigon wrote:
what would a ambigram of ricki vigon look like does it have more that one possible look
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Well, you know, if I write in curvy lowercases "igon", then turn it 180° and put a dot on the 2nd bar of the inverted curvy lowercase "n", I already can read "ricki" without asking for too much imagination. So since your name, like Rob Johnston's, looks incredibly ambigram friendly, there is surely lots of very different possible looks.
I can have a go if you want... Or you can try yourself first to have fun to discover it yourself...
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2005 8:30am
PS : I see in this forum several persons writing they cannot share their ambigrams yet because they need to scan what they have done. But we all know scanners are not that common, etc..
So in fact do not hesitate to use digital cameras instead ! All my ambigrams here are done like this :
1) I write with a dark pen on a white paper the ambigrams I came up with, and with standard size of writing (ie : the "Jeff Teate" I wrote was 2 cms high only)
2) I take a photo with a standard digital camera (mine is 3 years old), close range
3) I download it onto the computer
4) I open it with the open source program Image Manipulator GIMP which works for Windows 98 and after, which is very stable and user-friendly for such things.
5) I change it B&W, do some levelling/blur/contrast (and once you have done it for one ambigram, you'll go faster for the next ones), and here you have my posts.
6) You can also manipulate them to make them a bit better in a few seconds (in my original writing the letters of "JeffTeate" had much more space between them).
7) Oh and don't forget to do only half of it, and obtain the other part by doing a symmetry on it with GIMP, so you have a true ambigram
Note that this enables one to make very nice "huge" regular letters with absolutely no talent in drawing them so huge at hand (not to mention with a mouse)... It's just little regular letters nicely zoomed.
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rvigon
Loyal user
uk
266 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2005 11:55am
Could you have ago with my name then ricki vigon and again what is the context of it in the b ook
"No brilliance is required in magic, just determination and relatively clean fingernails."
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EmmanuelM
New user
24 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2005 3:39pm
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On 2005-01-21 11:55, rvigon wrote:
Could you have ago with my name then ricki vigon and again what is the context of it in the b ook
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Google "Angels et Demons" and "Ambigrams" together and you'll find many references, from the cover of the book to a corpse with a paper whose signature is an ambigram of "Illuminati".
As for your name, see the attached image.
Click here to view attached image.
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magiczak
Regular user
Granada Hills, CA
159 Posts
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Posted: Jan 24, 2005 11:39pm
WOW that is AMAZING!!!
I'd hate to impose.....but it is toooooo cool.
Would you mind trying my name!! 
Zak Koretz or Zachary Koretz
YAY!
Thanks
Zak
**Zak**
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magicgeorge
Inner circle
Belfast
3990 Posts
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Posted: Jan 26, 2005 11:11am
These are very cool. I've never seen them before. I've been trying my stage name all day, (on a bus journey writing it on the back of a newspaper). I got in and wrote it free hand into PhotoShop.A lot of the cases are wrong, is that important? Here are my first 3 attempts at ambigrams:
1st: pod
2nd: mad paw
3rd:
Click here to view attached image.
Magician Belfast
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magicgeorge
Inner circle
Belfast
3990 Posts
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Posted: Jan 26, 2005 12:16pm
Hey Zack, I had a go at your name, I only a beginner so it's not up to Emmanuel's standard but here you go:
Click here to view attached image.
Magician Belfast
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magiczak
Regular user
Granada Hills, CA
159 Posts
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Posted: Jan 27, 2005 2:23am
Cool! Thanks, It is great!
**Zak**
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