In my Writing for Extra Terrestrials class today, we utilized Glide Writing which is a way to use symbols which have mulitple meanings that one may also morph together and animate as well.

I wanted to share because it is neat and encourage everyone to give it a try.

Unfortunately, you can not create your own symbols for the Glide language but I wish you could. Also some other features I wanted in the program as well are the ability to rotate symbols and to morph horizontally rather than always vertically.

This would be a neat program to create your own screensaver with the morphing and animating of your own symbols.

Go to the Glide website
Select “Glide Language”, Select “Collabyrinth” and then launch it and well the rest is explained in text.

I made a version of the first stanza of William Blake’s “The Tyger” with Glide and captured the screen image. Of course I couldn’t capture the animations I did forming the glyphs for “burning bright” and “forests of the night” for example but if you go the website, you’ll be able to see what I mean. It is rather amusing.