Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ambigram

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Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:16, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Janke | Talk 08:30, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Puzzling, rather annoying. – Sca (talk) 14:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I think it's one of the best possible illustrations for an ambigram! Much better than this: [1] BTW: Did you read Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, or watch the movie? --Janke | Talk 21:26, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks, Bammesk, for the nomination. Official Wikipedia Twitter account shared this picture last week -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:51, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lots of excellent ambigrams in that article, actually. It's one of the best-illustrated on wiki. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600^th FP!} 21:09, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Made me laugh. Choliamb (talk) 21:57, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Choliamb: I might be a child, but my favourite is Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600^th FP!} 05:54, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam Cuerden: That's not an ambigram, it's a tessellation. --Janke | Talk 18:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's an ambigram and a tessellation. Most tessellations only display geometrical patterns or figurative drawings, while ambigram tessellations display words. -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:25, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Basile Morin: Well, I don't want to split hairs, but the single words on it lack the definite ambigram property of being the same upside-down. Your "yeah" [2], OTOH, is a really excellent ambigram tessellation, maybe the best I've ever seen! (And yes, I'm a fan of M.C. Escher's art! )--Janke | Talk 10:27, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There are different types of ambigrams. As described by Douglas Hofstadter, a "figure-ground ambigram" is a visual design where letters fit together so the negative space around and between one word spells another word. A clear definition appears page 33 of the book Ambigrams Revealed with a beautiful example of figure-ground ambigram tessellation "Escher" drawn by Alain Nicolas. See also this ambigram tessellation "Nicolas" on the website tessellations.org (archive). The Ambigram Magazine website features an ambigram tessellation "Einstein". Hofstadter mentions these ambigrams in his texts, for example in French page 4 of Les Ambigrammes: ambiguïté, perception, et balance esthétique, quoting Scott Kim's works as visual references. A figure-ground ambigram tessellation "Figure" designed by Scott Kim is archived here (page 36 of his book Inversions). See also the tessellation "Jay & Julie" on this Ambigram page. Thanks, I love Escher's artworks too. -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:34, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Basile Morin: Well, thinking a little further (which I seldom do... ;-) of the meaning of the word ambi-gram, you're absolutely right! Thanks for all the interesting links, too. BTW, is anyone else seeing a definitive 3-D effect in the Jay&Julie [3] image? My eyes see orange and blue popping out of the monitor surface, while cyan and magenta drop inside... --Janke | Talk 18:36, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support. MER-C 16:00, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per all. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:06, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation.gif --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:57, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]