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I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert
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Stuff Made Here builds a handwriting robot and sends its output to a handwriting expert to see whether it can pass as forgery. It walks through the engineering trials and errors along the way.
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HN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.
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There is a very cool youtube video with something similar from Stuff Made Here: [VIDEO] Was very fun to watch and he also explains the trials and errors, he did. There is also a link to a very interesting repository of handwriting synthesis: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Not a 3D printer but really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗This unironically may be what needs to be done. A video by Stuff Made Here covered what is essentially one such machine [0]. That specific machine is meant for generating handwritten notes, but I imagine it could likely work for general purpose documents too with some tweaks. [0] [VIDEO]
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