Summary

Parametric Hieroglyphic Alphabet.

With the openscad program "Hieroglyphics.scad" it is possible:

to draw parametric hieroglyphic texts by use of the function "drawText()"to draw a hieroglyphic text inside a cartouche by use of the function "drawTextInCartouche()"

samples:

drawText(["A","B","C",0); // text written from left to right
drawText(["A","B","C",1); // text written from top to bottom

drawTextInCartouche(["K","U","F","U"],0); // characters are laying on top of cartouche
drawTextInCartouche(["K","U","F","U"],1); // characters are carved inward

The program uses a 256x256 bitmap to define a single hieroglyphic character. The bitmaps have been generated using the vbscript "ConvertBMP.vbs". This script converts all the 256x256 (8 bits color) .bmp files into two openscad include files:
1) bitmap.scad (containing the textual bitmaps)
2) utils.scad (only containing a single function to calculate the character size)

If one wants to replace any of the bitmaps currently used by the scad file, the new textual bitmap can be generated using the vbscript.

Most important generic parameters:

pixelSize = 0.1; // determines the overall size of the characterpixelThickness = 2.0; // determines the thickness (z-direction) of the character