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Quote from the Github repo: _"The following criteria guided the development process: Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how t

by DerWOK 4y ago

Quote from the Github repo: _"The following criteria guided the development process: Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back in 2007. That's how deep this rabbit hole goes, friends. (Please support the Internet Archive!)"_

DerWOK 4y ago
This really deserves the "made with love" attribute. That guy is insane!!!
saghul 4y ago
Now that's some commitment!
- rezmason 4y ago
  Everyone needs a hobby! :D A year ago, when the fourth movie's trailers premiered, I wrote a script to slice the glyphs out of the video, and then identified the new ones and redrew them as best as I could. I missed a couple "punctuation marks" but the Resurrections version of the effect was live _ten days before_ the fourth film came out! Lately some behind-the-scenes footage hit the web, and I was able to improve those glyphs them substantially, release a font, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/wvg7bn/progress_shots_improved_matrix_resurrections/ https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/wvg7bn/progress_sho...
passion__desire 4y ago
One could use stable diffusion or another AI to generate new characters.
- teddyh 4y ago
  One could use GPT-3 to generate new HN comments.
- rezmason 4y ago
  Not sure why you're downvoted, the Matrix is canonically AI-generated. Any personal objection I'd have to this just cements the idea further to the fiction, you know?
photochemsyn 4y ago
The config file describing the glyphs is worth looking at. Also all the variable settings with comments. Pretty awesome work: https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix/blob/master/js/config.js https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix/blob/master/js/config.js
- rezmason 4y ago
  Thank you! A lot of what's possible via the configs is really tricky to specify via a URL, sadly, so I'm thinking of making a GUI to expose the rest of the knobs and switches. That's a ways down the road, though. I'm glad the URL variable idea paid off, it makes it very easy to bookmark and share custom versions with other people ^_^

by DerWOK 4y ago

DerWOK 4y ago

This really deserves the "made with love" attribute. That guy is insane!!!

saghul 4y ago

Now that's some commitment!

rezmason 4y ago
Everyone needs a hobby! :D A year ago, when the fourth movie's trailers premiered, I wrote a script to slice the glyphs out of the video, and then identified the new ones and redrew them as best as I could. I missed a couple "punctuation marks" but the Resurrections version of the effect was live _ten days before_ the fourth film came out! Lately some behind-the-scenes footage hit the web, and I was able to improve those glyphs them substantially, release a font, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/wvg7bn/progress_shots_improved_matrix_resurrections/ https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/wvg7bn/progress_sho...

passion__desire 4y ago

One could use stable diffusion or another AI to generate new characters.

teddyh 4y ago
One could use GPT-3 to generate new HN comments.
rezmason 4y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, the Matrix is canonically AI-generated. Any personal objection I'd have to this just cements the idea further to the fiction, you know?

photochemsyn 4y ago

The config file describing the glyphs is worth looking at. Also all the variable settings with comments. Pretty awesome work: https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix/blob/master/js/config.js https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix/blob/master/js/config.js

rezmason 4y ago
Thank you! A lot of what's possible via the configs is really tricky to specify via a URL, sadly, so I'm thinking of making a GUI to expose the rest of the knobs and switches. That's a ways down the road, though. I'm glad the URL variable idea paid off, it makes it very easy to bookmark and share custom versions with other people ^_^