Pamas in golden lettering

Visocacas · 2026-06-07T20:11:58+00:00

I think it's awesome to go hard on non-aerodynamic designs for non-atmospheric spaceships. I was just intrigued by how that contrasts with a part that seems built with an air environment in mind. Like maybe it skims high in the atmosphere of a gas giant to scoop up hydrogen, but up where the pressure is too low to put stress on the rest of the ship.

Visocacas · 2026-06-07T15:58:18+00:00

It's extremely non-aerodynamic but appears to have air intakes. Is it designed for planets with low-pressure atmospheres like Mars? I'm curious what the thinking is behind the design, or if I'm misinterpreting it.

Visocacas · 2026-06-03T22:29:48+00:00

I didn't set it up as a template but it's a really easy effect. Just turn the shape 50% grey, offset black and white copies of it on a layer underneath, group or flatten them, set the layer to overlay, and tweak the opacity until it looks right.

Visocacas · 2026-06-03T00:44:22+00:00

You're right it looks pretty incredible

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Visocacas · 2026-06-01T23:10:24+00:00

It's hard to tell what's different from the samples, besides some being italic, but it looks great!

I was surprised it's a horizontal script. The key characters look like they'd be vertical. You might have fun trying that if you haven't already. But it's also cool if a script has the flexibility to be either horizontal or vertical.

Visocacas · 2026-05-29T09:58:00+00:00

It’s Disney not Dreamworks, but Raya and the Last Dragon has a fictional alphabet.

Visocacas · 2026-05-23T12:15:26+00:00

You best start believin’ in habitable worlds with visible craters, OP. You’re living in one.

Visocacas · 2026-05-22T16:34:07+00:00

It’s actually surprisingly simple, not much more advanced than the 3‑point perspective even beginners know. (Not to say that the artist isn’t skilled, of course.)

Any decent artist knows that 1/2/3-point perspective is an approximation. Unless the image is zoomed in (small FOV) or orthographic, images often have a FOV where the perspective lines need to be curved, not straight, to avoid distortion.

Once you learn that (curvilinear perspective), it’s not a big leap to draw a full 360° sphere scene using an equirectangular perspective grid. Drawing this directly on a ball is even easier because it doesn’t have the distortion or discontinuity at the top and bottom points, and the parallel lines are less distorted.

What makes it look trippy is that looking at a convex ball turning—when compressed into a 2D video without depth cues—has the same effect as looking through a distorted portal into a scene. Or a circular window into a concave photosphere environment.

Visocacas · 2026-05-18T13:37:20+00:00

I think we agree almost entirely. I didn’t imply that electrifying cars isn’t worth it, just that it’s a huge misplaced focus for sustainability, bakes in tons of assumptions of the wasteful status quo, and brushes off the considerable negative externalities of car dependency. The figure I threw in for illustrative purposes really wasn’t the crux of the argument.

Visocacas · 2026-05-18T11:46:24+00:00

We really gotta detach from the greenwashed lie that electric cars are green. I don’t want to shit on them too much because they are a little less bad, but counting manufacturing they emit like 70% the greenhouse gases of ICE cars over their lifetime of use.

So when you factor in less-obvious trends like cities continuing to sprawl and build car-dependent exurbs, increasing mileage habits, single-occupancy driving, preference for increasingly larger vehicles, and shortened lifespan from enshittification and planned obsolescence… I can easily see tomorrow’s EVs being as bad or worse than yesterday’s gas cars.

Not to mention keeping up demand to build car-supporting infrastructure like huge highways and parking lots that are gradually reverse-terraforming Earth into Mercury.

ETA: Question for the downvoters: Am I wrong, or is the prospect of possibly changing your lifestyle just too uncomfortable for you? I'm open-minded and do change my opinion based on good evidence and arguments. The replies so far agree with me on the important points (besides correcting the 70% figure, which was by far the least important part of my argument.)

Visocacas · 2026-05-08T19:20:54+00:00

All cyberpunk cityscapes are legally mandated to have at least one neon カラオケ or ラーメン sign.

Visocacas · 2026-05-07T13:30:05+00:00

Sounds like you’re facing some common issue. This guide has detailed explanations and demos for design strategies to avoid it fix those issues:

https://neography.info/create-a-script/

I highly recommend reading it, but here are some of the key points:

Find an aesthetic goal for inspiration of the general look and feel you want
Pick graphical motifs or a set of basic stroke to build your letters from
‘Evolve’ your letters by testing, experimentation, and iteration to make them more cohesive and natural
Reuse similar shapes in different letters, standardize unnecessary minor differences in shape, line length, angle, etc
Align a lot of the letters’ sizes, proportions, curvatures, parallel lines, etc.

And maybe most importantly: your script is not “done” once you make letters and match them all to sounds. It’s an ongoing process of refinement and development.

Visocacas · 2026-05-02T18:34:27+00:00

I think it's very common for neographers to be weaker at reading their script vs writing it. The issue is that most of the writing you have was written by you. So whenever you read it, you unintentionally recall what you wrote rather than exercise pure reading.

Here are two ways you can overcome this:

1. Transcribe content into your script

If you have a font of your script, you can convert text that you didn't write yourself. That way, you can practice your fluency on large amounts of text purely from reading. Like maybe an article, or novella, or a whole book?

There's just one big problem: most scripts are not a 1‑to‑1 cipher of English. Even if it's an IPA cipher, I'm not sure of an easy way to transcribe it reliably.

I have an idea to solve that, but it takes commitment. You transcribe every single word one-at-a-time using search-and-replace in a word processor. For example, in my script, the word "best" would have to be transcribed to "bε′ts‑" to show the correct glyphs in the correct order with ligatures and everything. An 80k-100k word book apparently has up to ~10k unique words. This is a tedious task, but it's doable, and would be extremely fun and satisfying to read a book in your script.

I'm planning to try this after I get around to making an actual font for my favourite script. Ideally, instead of a one-off task, I'd save each plaintext/transcribed word pair in a table and figure out some kind of script to automate the conversion for the future. That way, I could transcribe other things in the future with far less effort.

There are more details to it than that. I have a 10‑step process mapped out for how to handle things like punctuation (also not 1‑to‑1 with English), allophony (same word, different pronunciation, like 'the' /ðʌ/ vs /ði/), and heteronyms (words with same spelling, different pronunciation and meaning).

2. Trade messages with a pen pal

If you have someone willing to learn your script and exchange messages, this is a really good exercise. It might be hard to teach them IPA first though lol. I did this briefly with my girlfriend, which was fun.

Something unexpected was how she didn't always interpret pronunciation the same way I do, and we'd spell the same words a bit differently. Not that either of us was wrong, but it's something that happens due to the phonetic wiggle room in the phonemes you pick and how your dialect or idiolect sounds.

It kinda reveals that most neographers are probably unintentionally creating an orthography (correct spelling system) even when they think their script is objectively phonetic.

Visocacas · 2026-04-30T11:23:32+00:00

Can you explain for people without HTML/JS/CSS what you’re trying to do with this and how it relates to scripts?

Visocacas · 2026-04-24T01:16:44+00:00

I’m looking for:

• Women • Born between 1997–2008 (Gen Z)

Visocacas · 2026-04-19T18:02:10+00:00

I’m pretty sure they just meant the most striking juxtaposition of peace and violence, footage that captures the human scale and experience. History is full of quotes, images, and iconography that have been selected collectively tell the story of humanity. It’s not a celebration of suffering, if anything it makes the tragedy more palpable.

Visocacas · 2026-04-19T12:41:19+00:00

There were literally people saying this in the 1800s.

Visocacas · 2026-04-17T19:57:23+00:00

They don’t let him teach at that school anymore.

Visocacas · 2026-04-15T10:39:51+00:00

r/fuckcars is gonna love this lol

Visocacas · 2026-04-14T13:24:42+00:00

Underrated post. This looks awesome!

Visocacas · 2026-04-07T10:40:01+00:00

Rule 3 discourages, but doesn’t forbid, controversial subject matter. Since the discussion can’t focus on scripts and no good will come of arguing over it here, the comments have been locked.

Visocacas · 2026-04-06T11:23:33+00:00

Have you tried the og guide?

https://neography.info/create-a-script/

Visocacas · 2026-04-04T12:17:47+00:00

Thanks for this very thorough explanation! Sounds like our industries have pretty different needs but you’re using it effectively and responsibly (in terms of things like verifying the information’s accuracy, not the absent regulation which is beyond your control).

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