Day 2! Teambuilding!
The students' ideas are growing. At the five o'clock presentation they were advised to work in teams. Opinions are divided. More news to follow.
9:00 Fontlab Course
The day started with a lesson about Fontlab. The basics were explained and everyone started. To avoid all misapprehension, it is necessary to explain that the intelligible objects in space and time abstract from all content of a priori knowledge. What we have alone been able to show is that, even as this relates to formal logic, the noumena, in particular, would be falsified. What we have alone been able to show is that space can not take account of the never-ending regress in the series of empirical conditions. The architectonic of pure reason is just as necessary as the employment of the Transcendental Deduction. Is it the case that the Ideal of human reason depends on natural reason, or is the real question whether the objects in space and time should only be used as a canon for our faculties? It is obvious that, so far as regards the transcendental aesthetic and our judgements, the things in themselves, for these reasons, can not take account of the transcendental aesthetic, and the transcendental aesthetic constitutes the whole content for, in respect of the intelligible character, the phenomena. It is obvious that our knowledge is a body of demonstrated science, and none of it must be known a posteriori. By means of analysis, there can be no doubt that, so far as regards pure reason, the noumena (and it is not at all certain that this is the case) are the clue to the discovery of natural causes.
Nico has been working to get the site online for some time now. In a mad spur he added some Kant Generator Pro text. KGP generates text automatically from xml - something that seemingly is going to play "some" role in the whole workshop
News! News!Today, Lucas explained the basics of FOntlab to the workshop participants. Surprisingly, most of them caught up very quickly, and even started examining the opentype substitution tables. Turns out you could actually define ligatures here, for, say, any random word like "FOOD". When you would use such a font and typed "FOOD", that word would be substituted by the food ligature (which could contain an image of FOOD for example. 17:00 = presentation! Many of the ideas started to look interesting, to say the least. Most of them still require a lot of fine-tuning, but everyone has done surprisingly well so far. At the end of the presentation the mood became pretty relaxed and ironical - everyone opened up a bit it seemed. Alas! Alas! Lucas finally bit the bullet (so to say) and revealed the "team aspect" of the workshop. 
= "Work on one font, together as a team." The main idea is that automation is all about small components working together. Designers are, quite understandably, developed individuals with an opinion of their own; and often they function best on their own. They don't like the idea of a mauling machine that controls all. However, a team does have its advantages. Diversity. Creativity. Dialogue. Discussion. Power. A voice. Various combined skills. Communication. Anyway. The mood faltered for a moment. We'll see what everyone thinks of it tomorrow... |
Today's movie: walk with Frederik from the dining hall ("FOOD!" - EATING IS RELEVANT) to the magic Mac3 room. You'll see Suzan, one of the dutch workshop participants. If you know what a link is, then you'd click here to see it |
So here you'll find all information about what's happening at the KernKru's apartment (if you know the correct spelling for this word, email us at kernkru@grafitron.com) - which is nothing much actually - we WORK, we eat, we sleep ... Right now, it's 00:40 and Frederik is pushing limits to get GlyphGhost up and running. GlyphGhost is the core software which allows groups of people to create network-fonts in Fontlab. |
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We bid a fond adieu to fontographer and welcome FontLab. On the picture you can see one of the exchange students (from Ireland) participating in the workshop
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