3:16 is a beautiful book, and the idea underlying it is a very nice one. Knuth also has a book called "Things a computer scientist rarely talks about", derived from a set of lectures he gave at MIT, which is mostly about the 3:16 project.
I don't think it was exactly "a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf". I think Knuth worked with each calligrapher individually; Zapf just happens to be the most famous of them (albeit mostly for his work in typography).
Someone -- I forget who -- called Knuth's technique in the 3:16 project "the way of the cross section", which is a lovely pun.
(In case it is relevant to anyone's evaluation of the above: I am an atheist but spent years as a Christian.)
I don't think it was exactly "a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf". I think Knuth worked with each calligrapher individually; Zapf just happens to be the most famous of them (albeit mostly for his work in typography).
Someone -- I forget who -- called Knuth's technique in the 3:16 project "the way of the cross section", which is a lovely pun.
(In case it is relevant to anyone's evaluation of the above: I am an atheist but spent years as a Christian.)