Thursday, 6 February 2025

Love in Morse Code...

The background is    pale mint green, the tape is white, and both the true Morse code and the "morse" where a dot is a filled-in heart and a dash an outlined one, are bright pink.
"Love," spelled out vertically in true Morse 
Code, flanking hearts that spell out love it
more liberally...



Hello there.

I hope you're having an excellent week. I know, I know, I say (and mean) a variation of this every week. But this week, I especially mean it. Cos round these parts it's been one of those weeks where I feel knee-deep in everything, but finished in virtually nothing. Can you relate?

So, I thought it would be fun, and very much in the spirit of the current Valentineish  season, to show you something interesting that I've learned in pursuit of one of those unfinished projects., ie...

How to spell out "Love" in Morse code.

I was really attempting to make a repeating pattern using this idea (and will post it here if I ever, actually manage to make it in full).

For now though, am left with the motif you see in the picture. (Which I'm thinking might work for something like tape, or ribbon).

But...

In the meantime, the Computer Man and I are left having different views on this. He says it can only be Morse code at all if the dots and dashes pattern you see at either side. 

On the other hand, my feeling is that once it's bright pink, made visual, and aiming to be part of a pattern, that ship has rather sailed...And so substituting filled hearts for dots and outlined ones for dashes (especially seeing as they are hearts, and the word being spelled out is "Love,")... feels like something well within artistic licence, to me.

I'll leave you with this conundrum, and wishes for a wonderful week, no matter what.