Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.
It does
Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
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Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#32> visual similarity > SigLIP 2 Maybe visual-semantic similarity is more appropriate? Nonetheless the design is fantastic
True, thanks for the feedback
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#33Very 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?
Agreed. Nice aesthetic. Terrible design.
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#34The name sounds really bad in French. Charcuterie is a pig butchering shop, usually associated with messy bloody stuff. The verb “charcuter” also refers to surgery done poorly.
But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#35Very 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?
Agreed. Nice aesthetic. Terrible design.
Well, that wasn’t my conclusion at all to be clear!
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#36anyone know how this works? i assume just rasterizing and embedding?
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#37Seems like search doesn't work for Japanese kanji.
Search works for https://unicodeplus.com/U+2F8F
But doesn't work for https://unicodeplus.com/U+884C
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#38I understand trimming input fields is typically a useful default, but in this case this prevents me from searching for a space. So maybe it'd be worthwhile to add a `if (trim(str)=="") return str` exception or something similar?
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#39I understand trimming input fields is typically a useful default, but in this case this prevents me from searching for a space. So maybe it'd be worthwhile to add a `if (trim(str)=="") return str` exception or something similar?
oh right, good catch
Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
#40Cool 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.
I love the name!