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principles and practices, project management

This week's assignemnt is installing Macurial Clinent in computer and drawing final project sketches.

A. About Me

B. install Macurial on Mac OS

- Download Macurial on official website.

- Read instructions on tutorial provided by Fab Academy here

- Also get some basic idea from Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial .

C. Fiinal Project Proposal: Writing Automaton

I am thinking about making a Writing Automaton. That will be a machine which can write what I just wrote.

To think deaper, it might be possible to build a Chinese character generative system. As we know, Chinese character has specific writing order which has been defined as 12 rules, such as:

1. From top to bottom
2. From left to right
3. Horizontal before vertical
4. Diagonals right-to-left
5. Outside before inside
6. Inside before outside
7. Inside before bottomenclosing
8. Center verticals before outside"wings"
9. Cutting strokes last
10. Left vertical before enclosing
11. Top or upper-left dots first
12. Inside or upper-right dots last

Besides, the 8 Principle of Yong describes common strokes of writing a one character Yong. Yong prepresents the most common 8 basic stroke of regular script, but actually there are 37 stroke types in regular stroke.

// Img from wikipedia 永字八法 and wikipedia Stroke

In the other hand, each person has his/her own special handwriting, and here is mine:

My Writing Automaton will (at least) synchronized my writing, and if possible , it will decompose my handwriting into strokes, resompose to any word and wirte them down on a piece of paper.

Challenges:

- The look of Automaton.

- Machanical of controlling pen's movement.

- Stroke input interface

- Algorithm of decomposing and recomposing words

:)

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