Thought I might just also join the party of 2.0 curves. This is based on an attempt to come as close as possible to a perfect circle, trying to beat Gene in the
competition for the most accurate circle before he pumps out another of his miracles...;) The "o" of this font is in that respect my entry to the competition. Just made it into a whole lowercase set for fun...
I suggest everyone who has his own circle for the competition somewhere in a font, tags it with "circle competition". Absolute accuracy shouldn't be the only criteria; if you manage to get an accurate circle on a small grid size, it should be rewarded as well. Mine has a 20 pixel stroke width and a 116 diameter, so I'm sure smaller solutions are also possible.
Due to its pretty large grid size this is getting dangerously close to the limits of the preview widget, so be patient when previewing it.
By the way: djnippa's
swiss army knife of composite bricks came in very handy here. Thanks!
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Only one I'm not keen on is the s.
I think you try to make out of two smaller and tighter circles.
I'm glad the "All Composites saved in MY BRICKS' helped. It's such a time saver. By the way i've made an amendment to it, you should check it out.
Mind you, I'd love to see what you can come up with to improve on that s :)
And yes, nippa, the bricks toolbox did save me quite some time! Thanks again... I linked to it in the description now.
All I did was make a big letter O. Now I have to make a competing font to match this? Jeez. If I was smart, I would just give up now. Anyway, here's an early attempt at circlization on a smaller scale (40 high) created before you set out the challenge.
-I've reported the weird pattern problem you mentioned on the downloads to meek. As far as I can tell, it isn't based on the size of the grid. I think it has more to do with rendering the small quarter triangles.
For days I have been getting brain (and talent) fatigue trying to create the angle that sits between the original two angles (see below). Any suggestions folks?
I by the way had sketches of a font like this around too, even before I knew fontstruct. I admit it's not an extremely creative font, and probably one of the first ones you come up with when starting to play with circles and squares to built letters. So I will try to make it a bit more quirky, and give it some more personality soon, but that now will definitely have to wait till after my finals...
And I too have been deperately hoping for a quarter circle brick (or boolean cut/intersect features). I once did a negative 2x2 filter setting version, but that workaround obviously had some limits:
(Hint on the hint: I didn't draw the horizontal 1/2 division lines on purpose.)
The colored bands show the groups of bricks needed to make each composite.
(The resulting font is terrible and I'm not about to show it, but as far as perfect circle goes, I think I'm done.)
Congratulations!
(What a pity that it's not really usable though, as it still doesn't allow for quarter circles, and is, in this respect, just a 4x4 version of the circle bricks. But still, I bow in admiration of the elegance of your solution...)
@genius1: That certainly is a perfect circle ... and they say size doesn't matter ...
@p2pnut: Hehe. That was pretty much my cop out to shasta's superior circlage. I'm still investigating other means of generating bezier fakes at different grid sizes.
@meek: Thanks for the update.
@OxC0FFEE: Hint > Use 2:2 filters and nine bricks total to get the circle.
Ladies & Gentlemen I give you the most PERFECT and smallest circular O on Fontstruct.
I got a even tinier one, it doesn't even take up half a brick!
Here's the tinniest one.
i thought i was an advanced user, but sometimes i don't even dare to know what you guys are talking about.
KUDOS to everyone involved in this whole "find-fontstruct-limits" experiment!!!
Some days ago, i wasn't on FS for a couple of days, it was like visiting another site! awesome...
i maked a o but its bold
Super-hyper-meta-ultra-itty-bitty smallest possible circle
Beat that! xD
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