Gallery: These Squiggly Signatures Are Actually Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Nicholas Rougeux turned Shakespeare's sonnets into distinct signatures.
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The forms were created by using a simple mathematical equation.
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Frist Rougeux assigned every letter a value.
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A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on.
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The x-axis coordinate is simply the number of letters in any given line.
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The y-axis coordinate was found by adding all of the letter values and then dividing it by the total number of letters.
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He then plotted the coordinates and drew a swooping line from dot to dot in order of the sonnet lines.
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The result is a unique signature.
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