Sometimes people don't want to write sentences or paragraphs.
They may only need a single word for their purpose, which may
be a t-shirt or jewelry design.
The simplest way to write a stand-alone word with betamaze
is to write it just as in English: all the letters on
one horizontal line. This method requires the least aestetic
choices.
However, one-line words do not make very complex images in
betamaze. This page is here to illustrate various ways to
represent a single word in more complex forms.
In plain horizontal left-to-right, "id:"
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In a square pattern, with the upper half of the square
being the word from left-to-right, and the lower half
from right-to-left, we get:
id di
In this form, the rotation of the letters has more significance.
Their rotation can affect the larger pattern, for greater or lesser
symmetry.
Here, the letters are all facing the same way:
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And here, the letters of the bottom half have been flipped
both horizontally and vertically to produce a more symmetcial pattern:
The ego:
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ego g g oge
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The superego:
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Because "ego" has two less letters than "super"
the square form of "ego" can fit within
the square form of "super:"
super uegoe pg gp eogeu repus
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Love:
love o v v o evol
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^ Note the heart shapes in the upper left and lower
right corners. This is a good example of the "double symbolism"
that betamaze is capable of. The message of "love" is
present in both the word and this particular arrangement
of the letters "l" and "o".
Hate:
hate a t t a etah
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