Boustrophedon

In Rongorongo, the text in alternate lines was rotated 180 degrees rather than mirrored; this is termed reverse boustrophedon.

A modern example of boustrophedonics is the numbering scheme of sections within survey townships in the United States and Canada.

[7] Canada's Dominion Land Survey also uses boustrophedonic numbering, but starts at the southeast corner.

This is in contrast to the more common method of odd and even numbers on opposite sides of the street both increasing in the same direction.

In art history Marilyn Aronberg Lavin adopted the term to describe a type of narrative direction a mural painting cycle may take: "The boustrophedon is found on the surface of single walls [linear] as well on one or more opposing walls [aerial] of a given sanctuary.

The Atlantean language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire is written in boustrophedon to recreate the feeling of flowing water.

[14] In the Green Star novels by Lin Carter, the script of the Laonese people is written in boustrophedon style.

[15] To make it easier to read from one musical staff to another, and avoid "jumping the eye," Jean-Jacques Rousseau envisioned a "boustrophedon" notation.