---
title: "Generating The Alphabet — Amy Goodchild"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/generating-the-alphabet-amy-goodchild-wacnaaskb
source_url: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/generating-the-alphabet
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-03-15T12:38:40.195Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "generative-art"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Generating The Alphabet — Amy Goodchild

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The post discusses the process of creating a path-based alphabet for generative artwork using p5.js and JavaScript. It explains how the author defined the letters, smoothed out the paths using Chaikin's curve algorithm, and turned the paths into 2D shapes using the 'shapify' algorithm. The post also mentions various aesthetic edits that can be made to create different effects and provides details about the size of the letter class.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/generating-the-alphabet>

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Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#generative-art](https://daily.dev/tags/generative-art)

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