Celebrating the month of Ramadan redoing one of my favourite visualisations, now using canvas!
https://observablehq.com/d/7a0a8c684e21dfd9
https://observablehq.com/d/7a0a8c684e21dfd9
Animated arabic kufic calligraphy with D3
An old example I did when blocks existed! Trying new ways to do the same Kufic calligraphy has impressed me since long ago. This example is from the walls of the Gudi Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Gudi Khatun Mausoleum The text is animated in the correct order to understand how the words are ordered. The meaning of the text is There is no God but God, and Muhammad is His prophet. May God bless him. I use the stroke style to animate, but the image has to be cut in chunks to do it, or each lette
