[HN Gopher] Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want ___________________________________________________________________ Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want Author : Tomte Score : 17 points Date : 2023-01-13 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (shapecatcher.com) (TXT) w3m dump (shapecatcher.com) | wcoenen wrote: | This reminds me of qhanzi, which I found to be super useful for | studying Chinese characters. | | https://www.qhanzi.com/ | dontlaugh wrote: | Pleco does this well too. | chrisux wrote: | Awesome, I got it to work with all the characters I tried. | | It would be nice for it to also give alt codes for it in the | output | | like e = [alt 1 3 0] | marginalia_nu wrote: | Drew a h-bar. It found Cyrillic tshe (tsh), as well as h with a | stroke (h), even Planck's constant (h), | | ... but not . | apendleton wrote: | Seems to be matching against one particular typeface, and is very | sensitive to how similar what you write is to that typeface. The | first thing I tried was a lowercase "a," which, in my | handwriting, is a one-story "a," and it had no idea what it was. | Likewise it guessed poorly at my lowercase "f" because the top of | my "f" curves back down, and its doesn't, etc. Seems like it | would benefit from a dataset with more variations on how various | characters are written in practice. | | Neat concept though! | BugsJustFindMe wrote: | I cannot for the life of me get it to recognize a snowman. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-13 23:00 UTC)