Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet

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A few days ago, I wanted to 3D-print the name of my wife in egyptian hieroglyphs as a surprize gift - but none of the already existing STL file sets really convinced me. As a consequence, I did some research, extracted single hieroglyphs from images I could find, simplified and vectorized them and finally converted the resulting SVG files into a format suitable for stereo litography. **These STL files may now easily be imported into many 3D modeling tools** (including [TinkerCAD](https://www.tinkercad.com/) and most 3D printer slicers) **and combined in whatever form you like**. ### Overview ### **Please note**: there seem to be several variants of an "egyptian alphabet" - not even counting the "Gardiner list" with hundreds of different hieroglyphs. The set shown below is a mixture of several alphabets I found during my research - please, do not take it too seriously: this set has been build for your pleasure only! <table> <tr> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/A.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/B.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/C.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/D.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/E.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/F.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/G.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/H.png"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center">A</td> <td style="text-align:center">B</td> <td style="text-align:center">C</td> <td style="text-align:center">D</td> <td style="text-align:center">E</td> <td style="text-align:center">F</td> <td style="text-align:center">G</td> <td style="text-align:center">H</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/I.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/J.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/K.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/L.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/M.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/N.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/O.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/P.png"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center">I</td> <td style="text-align:center">J</td> <td style="text-align:center">K</td> <td style="text-align:center">L</td> <td style="text-align:center">M</td> <td style="text-align:center">N</td> <td style="text-align:center">O</td> <td style="text-align:center">P</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/Q.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/R.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/S.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/T.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/U.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/V.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/W.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/X.png"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center">Q</td> <td style="text-align:center">R</td> <td style="text-align:center">S</td> <td style="text-align:center">T</td> <td style="text-align:center">U</td> <td style="text-align:center">V</td> <td style="text-align:center">W</td> <td style="text-align:center">X</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/Y.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/Z.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/CH.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/KH.png"></td> <td><img style="width:70px; height:70px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rozek/hieroglyphic-alphabet/main/PNG/SH.png"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center">Y</td> <td style="text-align:center">Z</td> <td style="text-align:center">CH</td> <td style="text-align:center">KH</td> <td style="text-align:center">SH</td> </tr> </table> ### Tools Used ### The following tools helped me generating the desired STL files: * [Photoline](https://www.pl32.de/) for image preparation * [Bildvektorisierer](http://image-vectorizer.com/bildvektorisierer.html) for image vectorization * [svg2stl](https://svg2stl.com/) for the final conversion into STL format (online)