How to divide a letter into small pieces?

Question

Adobe Illustrator

Good afternoon! I want to make such an animation for the text - https://codepen.io/ARS/pen/pjypwd
, respectively, I need other letters. I can’t figure out how to make letters from small pieces, please tell me how to do this?

Answer 1

download or sketch a chaotic grid of lines, put it on top of the letters converted to curves and execute division in the pathfinder