You know, I saw this same thing done in the book "Angel and Demons", its kinda a prequal to the "Davinci Code" . The Illuminati write in the same pattern like this.

This is pretty cool.

Like, DUHHH! ;) I totally got the idea from John Langdon's website, and he's the one who designed the ambigrams for that book. He's also partly the inspiration for Robert Langdon. Synchronicity, eh?

Take a peek, amigo:
http://www.johnlangdon.net/

Cool! My start doodling some abigrams.

Neat-o. Just keep in mind; you will inevitably do some really crappy-looking ones before you hit on one that looks good. Ambigrams are an unforgiving artform.

Yeah, they are. I'm impressed with this one! I was able to read it right away, which is the big test for an ambigram. This one passes!

*does a touchdown dance* YESSS!!! I was really worried about that. Especially the 'o'.

Of course, coming from YOU, this means a ton, considering that your signature was not only the first ambigram I'd ever seen, but still blows me away by how damn perfect it looks. Thanks!

Heheh.. cute. So is this the new fad now?

Not really. These damn things are hard enough that I can't imagine doing many more of them. Like, ever.

I have John Langdon's book WordPlay. I love Ambigrams. :3

HOLY SHIT HE HAS A BOOK!?

*ebay ebay ebay*

I totally cannot thank you enough. I'm buyin' this sucker ASAP.

Hehehe :3

BOUGHT!

For only four bucks, eh!

Ahaha, I love these things. They're just so awesomely mindbending.

*opens your skull, removes your brain and bends it a while*

[assorted bendy sound effects]

Alextar: The Last Mindbender?

Arrrrgh. *falls over backwards*

I do indeed get a kick out of this!! You rock, man!!!

Sweet! I figured a wordyfur such as yourself would appreciate something like this.

I'm suddenly imagining somebody creating a font (it'd have to be a 16-bit character set) containing 676 characters, for each possible combination of letter + upside-down letter. 325 of those letters would be inversions of 325 others, and the remaining 26 would be letters for the center of words (like the 'a' up there) or where the same letter is on both sides of a word at the same point. You'd basically write the beginning and ending halves of a word (or sentence!) at the same time, and then do it again in reverse order, using the opposite letters.

I can even imagine an easy implementation, too, albeit one that would likely have Unicode experts jumping up and down and frothing: If the letters are encoded such that the first byte is the letter it's supposed to be and the second byte is the letter it's supposed to be upside-down, you could easily type it out in an ordinary ASCII text file (don't forget double spaces everywhere, and eradicate all punctuation!) and then re-load it forcing the word processor to load it as a Unicode text file, then apply the ambigram font. Voilà. The implementation could even package with it a tiny program to auto-convert a text file with a single sentence into the proper format. Even parsing multiple lines as singles...

You've obviously never seen the Ambigram-O-Matic:
http://ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm

It's far from perfect, but it's kinda interesting. So far, 'feces' has produced the best one I've seen.

Now that is fucking cool.

Also, this guy does some really ambitious ones:
http://www.01101001.com/ambigrams/

That's a lot!! The "Andy" one looks like Tengwar. (Lord of the Rings elf script.)

Actually, a *lot* of them look like Tengwar. I like some of the more audacious ones, like 'Buzz' made out of the same zigzag line repeated six times. 'Geo' looks like a motorcycle. And of course I noticed 'Fox' in there.

I know how hard it is ^^

Very impressive work!

Thanks very much! Ever ambigrammed anything yourself?

Yup ^^ But it didn't work out... couldn't get all the letter to play along <.<

What word were you doing?

My full name... many many letters ^^

Yeep. Those can be tough. Did you try ambigramming your first name into your last name? Like Andrew Mutchler, aka Kinky Turtle: http://kinkyturtle.masemware.com/ca.....6/kturtle.html

Yes. At first I thought It would be easy since there was a t in the middle (which can easily be seen from both sides when looking like a +) and left and right were the same number of letters.
But in the end it wasn't as easy as I thought.

*shrugs* Try and try again is all I can say. However, I have found it useful to try an assboat of fonts and letter styles before you give up. Do capitals, lowercase, cursive, caligraphy, whatever. The harder you try to force an ambigram, the more it'll suck.

Thanks. Should I try again, I'll and then post it here okay? ^^

Go for it!