[HN Gopher] Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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       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.
        
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