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Um, Douglas Hofstadter and Scott Kim were doing this forty years ago. Probably longer. Hofstadter had his students making ambigrams thirty years ago. Nothing new here.
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All true, but it’s neat that these are making the rounds.
Think of it as a way to stimulate new interest, even if it isn’t a novel subject.
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A buddy of mine from grad school has dedicated a good chunk of his career to these, he published his own book on the subject a few years ago. (It’s listed as “frequently bought together” with the Langdon book.)
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that’s why I likes m.c.escher drawings
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That’s a bummer of a way to greet today’s lucky ten-thousand, man.
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“With a foreword by Dan Brown”
Sure, you could just skip it, but…
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