New Adventures in Puzzle Fonts (talk from IJCDCGGG 2023)

A talk by Erik Demaine presented live online at the 25th Indonesia-Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graphs, and Games [https://ijcdcg2023.wordpress.com/] on September 21, 2023.

Abstract: What if the way we write text, not just the text itself, expresses the mathematics we are writing about? Even further, what if reading the text requires engaging in mathematical puzzles? In this talk, I will show several newer mathematical and puzzle fonts that explore these questions, from pencil-and-paper puzzles to computational origami to video games to integer sequences. I will also describe some of our latest explorations into using mathematical/puzzle fonts as tools to design algorithmic art.

Full abstract: https://ijcdcg2023.files.wordpress.co...

To learn more, check out our fonts webpage!

https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/