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Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

rickcarlino

Comments (27)

  • keyle
    I like the animation work and sound, it really gamifies the experience. I question the usefulness though. But it could make a fun game experience if it were to let people match by colour or align emojis related to each other.
  • siddboots
    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?
  • wackget
    Cool but maybe consider a different name? If I want to recommend this tool in a few weeks' time there is approximately 0% chance I'm remembering it's called something like "Charcuterie", despite the clever bit of wordplay.
  • Cadwhisker
    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.
  • irickt
    "Everything runs in your browser."That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds. :)Several models to compare.
  • _qua
    I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
  • tantalor
    Ouch, my back button
  • arttaboi
    This is impressive! Thanks for sharing.
  • tash_2s
    Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.
  • pimlottc
    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?
  • runeblaze
    > visual similarity> SigLIP 2Maybe visual-semantic similarity is more appropriate? Nonetheless the design is fantastic
  • ssss11
    Sounds delicious!
  • anon
    undefined
  • LowLevelKernel
    WOW. JUST WOW ‼
  • downboots
  • adi_kurian
    This is quite remarkable. Great work.
  • evilelectron
    WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.
  • minantom
    Very cool concept and execution.
  • ares623
    Reminds me of early 2000's web design with Flash websites. Those were good times.
  • fortyseven
    Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien language they find on the UFO?
  • mplanchard
    Love the name, very clever
  • rustystump
    This tastes delicious. The sound is perfectly restrained and animation is intentional. I wish more apps were as playful as this.
  • SpyCoder77
    [dead]