Bi Sheng in the Song Dynasty of China invented letterpress printing. Since then, he has not only deeply inspired the elegance of Chinese fonts, but also reflected the beauty of Chinese culture in addition to the meaning of the words, and avoided the need for practical functions. Traditional copying is time-consuming and error-prone; to this day, there are only a few masters left to pass on this time-honored technique.
In Hawaii, Hongtao Zhou, a Chinese artist, and his classmates Tyler Francisco, Rhealyn Dalere, and Chin Fang Chen, who also studied architecture, jointly developed this system that uses 3D printing technology to vertically arrange fonts into simulated urban landscapes. This is how Textscapes came about, using virtual fragments of words to construct real life scenes.
Through such a relatively specific outline arrangement, it is actually of great help to the visually impaired or people with reading difficulties. Through actual interaction and perception, these objects that may originally have only a simple narrative function are transformed into Transformed into a medium of art, calligraphy, numbers, and different language and writing systems have been developed to make up for the shortcomings in typesetting. Through rigid hardware equipment, the architecture and art that we face every day in life can be transformed. , culture, landscape, etc. are displayed in a vivid way. The following photo is even one of the works with New Yorks Central Park as the main visual!
