Nicolas Boillot’s Vectoglyph (2019)¶
Available resources at a glance
Vectoglpyh is a project of the Franco-Swiss artist and researcher in digital art Nicolas Boillot.
Boillot treated SVGs as simple ASCII text sequences and trained OpenAI’s GPT-2 algorithm on them.
SVG icons¶
In one artistic experiment, Boillot trained GPT-2 on an icon dataset, 1700 emoji from the Twemoji (Twitter emoji) collection. The quality of the results, despite being artistically interesting, is expectedly not overwhelming.
Fig. 69 Screenshot of the Twemoji model results; taken from the fluate.net website¶
SVGs from fonts¶
He treated the SVG obtained from a font collection as a text training dataset for GPT-2 to create a new font: Vectoglyph-Noto.ttf
Fig. 70 Screenshot of the Vectoglpyh font; taken from the fluate.net website¶