The first words I learned to read and write.
The first sentences I could read. I have no idea why these plates have such a poor layout.
One of the most extraordinary things I ever learned happened to me when I was on primary education. We were taught to read for the first time. But for that you have to know the alphabet. And if you know that then you can make little short words. That was a wonderful experience that I have never forgotten. I read the words (excuse my dutch): aap, noot, mies, wim, zus, jet, teun, vuur, gijs, lam, kees bok, weide, does, hok, duif en schapen.
Over time, you could then combine words into sentences. Short sentences that included short words: ‘toos gaat naar school flip zegt dag zus, he! Dat is leuk! Guus ziet Guus! Pas op leida, je pop vat kou!’ Sentences like that. And from there you could then start reading stories and books.
Letters were the foundation of a word, and sentences could be made with the words. Those sentences made stories and filled books. Until I found out in 2024 that you could also do things with letters that were not functional. You could make structures and patterns with them. And that‘s what this publication is about.
Structures formed by letters through the programming language Processing. You might ask why does that have to be through a programming language? A good reason is that a programming language gives you the ability to create things that are beyond your own ability and independently of commercial software.
I decided not to make this publication an in-depth treatise explaining how the programs work. The images are simply to look at. To still have some reference to letters, I have listed in the right column next to each image the letter(s) I used for that structure or pattern.
Henk Lamers