Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

(charcuterie.elastiq.ch)

83 points | by rickcarlino 3 hours ago

10 comments

  • siddboots 1 hour ago
    Very cool concept and execution, well done.

    I don't quite understand what is going on with the "spotlight" UI concept - I can click around on the characters and it highlights an area and it also reloads the landscape local to the character that I clicked on, so I can sort of traverse the similarity landscape this way. But I feel like I might be missing some part of the visual metaphor?

  • Cadwhisker 24 minutes ago
    Very impressive that I can sketch a character in the top-left and get a close match. That's a real highlight showing that there's more going on under the hood than a big look-up table.
  • SpyCoder77 44 minutes ago
    Very good design. I added a visual similarity feature to my Unicode explorer a while ago, but it is nowhere near as fast. It is at https://unicode-atlas.vercel.app if anyone would like to check it out.
  • pimlottc 1 hour ago
    This is cool but the characters are awful small on my iPhone 14 Pro. Decent bit of wasted space too. Why are the characters in the previous history list (on the “rim” so much bigger than the characters I’m actively exploring?
  • irickt 2 hours ago
    "Everything runs in your browser."

    That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds. :)

    Several models to compare.

  • tantalor 58 minutes ago
    Ouch, my back button
  • minantom 49 minutes ago
    Very cool concept and execution.
  • evilelectron 1 hour ago
    WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.
  • fortyseven 1 hour ago
    Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien language they find on the UFO?
  • mplanchard 2 hours ago
    Love the name, very clever