Kenneth wrote:

> I'm imagining the letters being used to create a height_field--then
> you'd have a 'Rosetta Stone' generator. I'm guessing that the letters
> can be made to look less 'aligned' somehow--as if hand-drawn (or
> hand-chisled!) by a non-artist.

I tried my variant with increased turbulence to break up
the alignment even more:

   warp {turbulence <0.4,0.2,0.2> lambda 1.0 octaves 1}

And tested it with a height_field:

#declare f_alienese = function
{
   pigment { AlieneseProportional scale 0.07}
}

height_field
{
   function 1024,1024
   {
     f_bozo(x*3,y*3,z*3) - 0.04*f_alienese(x,y,0).red -
     0.04 * f_noise3d(x*250,y*250,z*250)
   }
   pigment {color White}
   translate <-0.5,0,-0.5>
   rotate 180*y
   scale <6,1,6>
}

I think the results look quite promising. Of course,
for a Rosetta stone you'd also need a translation into
a widely known language such as Klingonese ;)

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