New CJK characters

[Phake Nick]

I'm fairly certain it was introduced from a fontmaker's facebook post,
however I cannot use Facebook account nowadays, and thus have
difficulty finding the relevant posts, as Facebook now blocked many
pages from non-logged-in users.

But, while searching, I found the following links which might be
interesting to anyone who want to look into this topic:

https://www.astar.com.tw/astar_auto02.htm A Taiwan company's software,
Astar Auto, which will dynamically generate characters in gif image
format and serve it to client browser according to request. This is
from ~2000s or so thus no fancy technology involved

https://github.com/ButTaiwan/GlyphsTools/tree/main/TaiwanKit An
opensource font making tool from Taiwan, which include the feature of
auto generating symbols like Roman numerals or Full width Latin
characters, based on glyphs that have already been created, and it can
use mirroring and rotation to automatically make glyphs for symbols
like tabulation symbols and arrows, as well as adding circle and such
around numbers to form enclosed characters. But it doesn't appear to
support auto-generating Chinese characters. It can also auto update
the resultant design if the source glyph is modified.

https://www.cjkfonts.io/blog/cjkfonts_allseto A Traditional Chinese
font maker used machine learning to generate Simplified Chinese
characters of the same style as an open source Japanese font and
released it to the public.

https://aihub.org.tw/ai_case/fd0c8ff03157edb37926475ef674873a Arphic,
a famous Traditional Chinese font maker, is reportedly using their own
AI module to automatically adjust structure and thickness of glyphs,
and font designers will only need to do final quality check before
releasing the product. Currently their AI can create 5000 characters
from 5000 handmade characters, and they want to increase the rate to
90% glyphs being auto generated into the future. It is said that the
introduction of such a tool has already improved their revenue, and in
the next stage they want to open up the platform for public use, such
that everyone can create Chinese fonts with their own personal style.

Martin J. Dürst <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp> 於 2021年11月6日週六 上午8:31寫道：
>
> On 2021-11-05 22:14, Phake Nick via Unicode wrote:
>
> > Recently I have came across some proposed solutions to develop CJK fonts
> > for array of characters by using deep learning to put radicals together
> > with different components of different characters nocely according to their
> > proportion through machine learning, that's also something we didn't have
> > back in the pre-Unicode era.
>
> I would be very interested in any pointers, either on or off list.
>
> Regards,   Martin.