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All credit to Buro Destruct for their original bitmap design. Except for the &, that one’s mine.
I originally released this in 2008 as an exploration of the optical effect possible using different modules in a simple, gridded bitmap design. Buro Destruct iconic design was an inviting point of departure.
I have recreated/republished this at the request of four who took the inspiration and ran with it.
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@fugitiveglue: 8) Back in the early days of fontstruct, we shared a lot of work simply in the spirit of expanding the experimental horizons of the software and what we knew of modular design.
We were rapt in this tangible excitement to map out all these possibilities as fast as we could dream them up... and fontstruct them.
I made a whole diverse series of clones from Med Led exploring various modules, filter settings, and optical special effects. It’s a wonderful template to try out the “meek FM”-like abilities of the fontstructor utilizing brick substitutions and filters.
But this one definitely is by far my favorite of the bunch (though I had one called Med Yeti which was also kinda dope).
@four: Thanks for the 10, the favorite, and for encouraging me to republish this! :)
My god i also had many heavy crisis on my FS journey which annoyed many here, and i rebegun my whole set many times, but i still conserved important private traces to use them as roughs for developping new much more advanced and sophisticated works, i just couldn't imagine all this even immature hard work could really have been made for nothing.
My actions felt appropriate and liberating. If I could, would I do it differently? No; it’s part of my story now. Accepting and learning how to share this story is a more worthy pursuit.
The only lost thing I would likely restore if I could would be my comment history as williaum. A lot of threads on old-school fontstructions lost some of their coherency with my comments removed. This is a loss to the community.
But it never occurred to me that “my time and energy here was all for nothing.” I know the fontstructions I deleted were the least significant part of my work since my goal so rarely is the artifact. I feel moved to invent and share innovative techniques.
An excellent example is my denouement from this period: the brickstacking exploit. Though there was exactly the right amount of luck involved, discovering, cracking, refining, and releasing the brickstacking exploit was a totally intentional process. Brickstacking of course potentiates a lot of work on fontstruct (including your own). It is such a widely used and useful approach that it went on to receive official support and integration into the software.
This characteristic of innovation defines my work from the beginning. It can be difficult to trace the actual legacy of my contribution to the medium in all its specific details or really understand its scope, but that’s okay. I don’t need credit. I trust the spirit of my offerings lives on in all the other people who cloned my work, learned something from it directly or were excited to explore a new tangent. Many were inspired to make more magnificent creations of their own because of my original technical demonstrations.
Those early days were such a great time, after all, to be pushing the envelope of known fontstruct possibilities. The fontstructor was much less fully-featured than it is today, but this only encouraged our enthusiasm to think outside of the box. We didn’t even have the 22.5° wedge bricks for the majority of that time. And we couldn’t comment on each other’s work for a portion of it! So this awesome community dialog took place based entirely on how one trail-blazing fontstruction would inspire and inform the next...
Don’t be fooled by the evidence. Everything we make will be lost, broken, or out-modded one day. But if even one authentic thread lives on, strung and stuck in the symphony of future players, then our lives have a purpose beyond our own.
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