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Project name:
The word Mediaglyphs was first introduced by Neal Stephenson in his sciencefiction novel "The diamond age".
We are trying to make his vision become reality.
Creators:
The MediaGlyphs project is conceived and directed by Giuseppe Insana. Those who contributed or still contribute theoretical and practical assistance to the project are:
Perl, Php, Python, Linux & Vim
are used extensively.
Lame,
a free and open-source mp3 encoder is used to compress all music samples, which were originally created with the program Reason and then recreated with the perl module MIDI::Simple.
Iconv for character set conversions
Yudit and BabelPad:
two excellent free unicode text editors.
Fonts:
The following fonts have been used in glyph creation
Translations:
Translations for the glyphs have been either manually inserted by our language curators or adapted from the following electronic wordlists:
Hanzi-500
(list of most frequent chinese characters)
geonames.de
"The countries of the world in their own languages" (by Werner Fröhlich)
Many English definitions and some example sentences come from the lexical database
WordNet [Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010].
The multilingual example sentences are from the database:
Tatoeba
[which is released under the license
CC-BY 2.0 FR].
Text-To-Speech:
TTS for phonetic names achieved thanks to
mbrola
and using the freely available txt2pho programs or coding new ad hoc ones.
For Mandarin Chinese, the
MSRCN tts
has been used.
Glyphs:
Some glyphs were temporarily borrowed from internet, in particular:
or made using TrueType dingbat-like fonts (e.g. Animals, Signs....)
These will all eventually be recreated and are just temporarily used.
Important:
If you own the copyright for any material that has been used in this project and you are not satisfied by our non-profit use of it, please contact us and we will remove it.
Thank you for your consideration.
First appearance:
Fri Mar 8 03:33:33 GMT 2002
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Thu 11 Apr 10:39:53 BST 2024