I'm currently studying kanji in my pursuit of Japanese language proficiency. A lot of kanji.
So, I wanted to do a little generative art project involving kanji. I took the excellent SVG data from the KanjiVG project and created an algorithm to morph between kanji by moving all the individual strokes.
Big shoutout to the Javascript vector graphics scripting tool Paper.JS; it was a great fit for this project.
You'll need to download the KanjiVG data.
setup.js is a node script that should do this for you if you have node installed. This command installs the necessary npm libraries and runs it.
npm install fs request unzipper && node setup.js
Otherwise you can manually download KanjiVG from their releases page and unzip it into the top level of the repo (/kanji). Here's the release I used during development: link.
Just opening index.html won't work because of CORS, so to run the project you'll need to serve index.html locally somehow.
I used:
python3 -m http.server
Attribution
KanjiVG is copyright © 2009-2023 Ulrich Apel and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Paper.js distributed under the permissive MIT license.