Is it possible in TeX or MetaFont etc. to generate a "character" that displays as a single letter at one scale but as a different character or even an entire alphabet at different scales?
So at standard scale, the character "A" would be indistinguishable from a normal solid regular A. But then when zoomed in the character "A" would look like a pointillist painting of a bunch of tiny As in the shape of a big A; or ABCDEG formatted in the shape of A; or even a bunch of tiny Bs? And from there, we might zoom in to a single tiny B such that it would be a look like a normal solid B (but could zoom in further for other letters).
What would be the best way to arrange a tiny string of letters to imitate a single big letter, e.g. the shape of a Unicode character, so that it is a perfect visual replica of it (not just "kinda" like the outline of a character but virtually 1:1 in terms of shape, font-size, kerning, etc.)?
For efficiency, would generating fractal letters like this be better implemented in an entirely new language or would something like a Python or LaTeX script suffice? Ideally, I'd want the
fractal/recursive attribute coded into a single "character" such that any given letter or symbol will be able to be zoomed in and out of,
but without requiring too many resources.
