Bionic Reading – Convert Text into Better Way to Read Faster
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#3Since it isn't mentioned this is inspired/based on https://bionic-reading.com/ (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30787290). Note, although it has been granted patent only in France, the Bionic Reading name is registered trademark. A web extension was made soon after the link was posted and can be found in https://github.com/ahrm/chrome-fastread (Firefox vers: https://github.com/akay/firefox-fastread).
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#4This is patent encumbered, so if you use it for a product, you’re setting yourself up for trouble down the line.
The project page should be updated to mention the patent situation IMO. The license is MIT, but that doesn’t mean you can use this without paying the patent holder whatever has asks.
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#5How the hell did they manage to patent this? At least in Germany it is still "pending". I had the strong impression that you cannot patent software or algorithms (at least in Germany).
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#6this is really cool. I wonder if it's possible to create a bionic font such that you could get system wide support, well for the most part.
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#7how does someone acqiure a patent for stylistic typography that reaches across typefaces?
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#8Algorithm of this version seems brutally simple.
const mid Math.floor(preElem.length / 2); > {preElem.slice(0, mid)}{preElem.slice(mid)}
I thought the original was more complex a nuanced than this.
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#9I tried the samples on the bionic reading website, I don’t feel like this makes me read faster. Am I the only one?
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#10Kind of similar to this bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){var q="p, title",e=document.querySelectorAll(q),o=[],str1="",str0="",str="",j=0,pivotchar=0,finvar="",ans="",d=window.open("","_blank"); for(var i in e){var t=e[i].textContent; if(t){o = o + "\n" + t;}} str0 = o; str1=str0.replace(/\n/g, "
"); str=str1.split(" "); for(j=0;j" + str[j].substring(0,pivotchar) + "" + "" + str[j].substring(pivotchar,str[j].length) + "" + " "; if(str[j].substring(str[j].length-1,str[j].length)=='.') { finvar=finvar+" * "; } ans=ans+finvar; } d.document.write(""+ans+"