The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes
Piers Kelly, James Winters, Helena Miton, Olivier Morin
Abstract
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic representations of real things. Over time, these naturalistic pictures became simplified into abstract forms. Thus, the iconic ox’s head
Topics & Concepts
HistoryGeographyGeologyEvolutionary biologyBiologyAdvanced Text Analysis TechniquesMusic and Audio ProcessingMultisensory perception and integration