Ambigram is any word that reads the same from a different view, normally upside down. They are used extensively in Dan Brown’s Angels and Daemons which led me to John Langdon’s site. Apparently, John is the premiere Ambigram artist living today. View his site and you would be surprised at how he plays with words to give us all a visual treat.
Inspired by Langdon, I spent lot of time trying to make an Ambigram out of my name (SOMASUNDARAM) . Today I guess I have come pretty close. And what you see above is my name scanned both rightside-up and upside-down.
P.S. Was Dan Brown's Protagonist (Robert "Langdon" who is a symbologist in both A&D and DVC) an inspiration drawn from John "Langdon"?
Angels & Demons...one of my fav. cool ambigram...
ReplyDeleteMEz trying to analyse it closely to find fault... ;-)
Find fault ? Hmmm... were u able to find any ? Am gonna indulge in A&D in a couple of days time... Heard its just as good as DVC !!!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. i am half way thru A&D . it's very good :)
ReplyDeleteKrish...Oh good... I am bound to start it anytime... just at the fag end of my current reading !!
ReplyDeletenice site yaar....
ReplyDeletebtw the ambi u posted was quite incomprehensible at first....
can u try to make one for me too??
thts cool ambigram :)...A & D is a good book infact all dan brown books r good..do read it :)
ReplyDelete@@$#!$# Yeah I had a tuff time explaining what it is to my friends... Anyways, I thought that was the closest I cud get to... Let me see if I can try out urs :o)
ReplyDelete@Neha, thanks... And yeah am gonna try and finish off his entire series... :o)
oh btw if u want dan browns entire series i cud mail it across to u..
ReplyDeleteHi Somu, Interesting. Nice way to put 'S', the first letter I mean that is supposed to look like 'M'. Cool :o))
ReplyDeletecan u do that for me too? plzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Sonal : Thanks... :o) Whispering solitude is still not up. Am looking fwd to it.
ReplyDeleteJ : Its easy considering you have a name as simple and small as "J" :o) I sure can give it a shot
Ashish : You mean you have his entire collection online ? I wud definitely let you know once am through with A&D
ReplyDeletenoooooo. i want that for my full name - the typical tambram name that i have.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, what's the typical name that you have ? I thought "J" was it all... How short and simple :o)
ReplyDeleteI can try... Cannot assure though... Depends on how complicated your name is :p
And off track, John Langdon was paind millions by Dan Brown for generating those ambigrams :p
jayashri jayaraman
ReplyDeleteAngels n demons was ok..liked da Vinci code better..:)
ReplyDeleteoh learnt something new from your blog
ReplyDeleteHi prabha, I heard that too.. I was so engrossed with DVC i completed it in one night. Not so sure if I can do it with any other book.
ReplyDeleteVaishnav : Glad you learnt something. Btw, not able to comment on your site coz its asking for a login :o(((
hey some i've mailed the collection to ur sify mailbox...
ReplyDeletedo check it out n let me knw
hi somu,
ReplyDeletei think there are two sonal's on ur blog,i think i hav to make a different signature 4 ur blog ;-)
neway i hav my pic besides me :-)
- sonal
Sonal, not to worry. I noticed that too... and the pic is always there to help me identify :o)
ReplyDeleteI don't really suppose it was worth the tiem that you spent on creating the ambigram. IMHO, it doesn't really read like an ambigram.
ReplyDeleteHi abhijit, Thanks for dropping by. Yeah true, which I why said said This is "Supposedly" an ambigram. Considering I have no artistic background and I aint in any creative line, i still feel it was a good attempt. Am glad that it helped a soul laugh his heart out :o)
ReplyDeleteFew have asked me to do it for their names. Isn't that more than what I can expect from a not-looking-like-an-ambigram-at-all ?
your bigram rocks i to make ambigarms but i just cant get the ambigram of my name because my name spells arjit and i cant get j and j.see if u can try
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