Lindsay, > How about some of Hofstadter's work on letter spirit (or whatever it was > he calls it)?
This was a project/methodology for generating fonts according to various rules. The generated glyphs tended to be angular and somewhat unfriendly (to my eye at least). The whole thing struck me as an exercise in a mathematical idea, with no interest in human preferences (apart from actually doing the project). Thomas, >probably in the 60s or 70s, that may be relevant. There was certainly one >result showing that of the various pairs obtained by taking one each of |, >_, / and \ the hardest pair to discriminate was \ and /. If you do turn up a reference, please let me know. Jarinee, >Check on Pomerantz's wrok: I will. >3) Pomerantz, J. R., Pristach, E. A., & Carson, C. E. >(1989). Attention and object perception. In B. E. >Shepp & S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Object Perception: >Structure and process (pp. 53-90). Hillsdale, NJ: >Erlbaum. I have found this article online at: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pomeran/articles.htm derek -- Derek M Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe announce To receive a help file, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] help This list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ If you have any problems or questions, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
