I’m a big fan of the Stargate series! I was thinking about the unordinary symbols of the ancients’ language.

I found their form to have a bit-like structure. So I started with a randomly generated pattern NxN.

glyph

Then I found some patterns don’t look good. So, I added check functions to exclude these patterns.

  • no_quads? Exclude ‘bold’ structures.

  • no_chess? Exclude ‘chess’ structures.

https://github.com/artyomb/ruby_gl/blob/master/glyphs.md

The script generates new glyphs on each key press. Press ‘s’ to take the screenshot.

An extended alphabet of the ancients’ language!