They make great presents! You can turn them into ornaments or a mobile. Tools like this one can also be a good reference in case you need a hint for how two letter shapes might be paired together. * Design ambigrams for friends, family members, or teachers. I strongly recommend that you attempt to create one or two ambigrams on your own, but if you want to cheat, there are a few ambigram generators online such as the one at. * Visit Erich Friedman's wordplay page, to enjoy many clever ambigrams displaying different kinds of symmetry.
We used a drawing program to rotate a copy of each letter 180 degrees.Ĥ) We put our version of "math cats" together and colored it so that it still looks the same upside-down. We drew an H and C almost like the ambigram generator did. Our first tries didn't look much like A's or T's.
We finally chose the yellow pair.ģ) We thought we'd try writing the A and T in lowercase letters. Our first two S's didn't look much like M's when rotated. We didn't really like the S and M so we tried some other ways which weren't as tilted. You can use them for ideas and then try different ways to write or combine the letters. The ambigram generator will create a a version of your word(s) which looks the same when rotated 180 degrees.Ģ) The letterings designed by the ambigram generator are just rough suggestions. We'll use the two words "math cats" as an example:ġ) Type your word or words in the ambigram generator at the website. Here is how you can get started in designing your own ambigrams. An ambigram is a word or words written to look exactly the same when turned upside-down.Ĭlick here to try another math craft with rotational symmetry.