Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#2Sounds cool but sadly hasn't worked for the letters I often need but haven't easy access to (czech characters like: ř, ď and š). Perhaps because the element that makes them distinct from the latin (the "haček") is so tiny.
Edit, I just drew the ř larger and it recognised it correctly. Cool :)
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#3Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?)
But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations.
[1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#4Idea: instead of matching the shape of what the user has drawn raster-wise, let the user draw an svg-like path, and try to identify the letter by the trace.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#5It didn't recognize the capital letter A, only variations on the letter A and other unknown characters. I'm sure that the letter A is an unicode character!
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#6Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm
If a pc can't find it, perhaps drawing things is going to be the new captcha!
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#7Tried to draw an alpha but it didn't get it.
So far I haven't tried Shapecatcher a lot but I think that http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html works much better. Detexify is of course only for LaTeX symbols and doesn't do unicode.
To be useful Shapecatcher needs to become better at recognition.
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#8Trying to draw U+1F4A9 (Pile of Poo). After several attempts, no luck.
I have learnt that Unicode contains even more weirdness than I thought before though, including 'Alchemical symbol for borax-3' (U+1f744), and 'doughnut' (U+1f369).
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#9Worked really well for me, found a smiley face and a few accented characters. Awesome idea and implementation.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#10Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm
Can someone tell me why 'Cat with a wry smile' is in Unicode? Presumably at some point someone thought that it would be useful to somebody else, hence it's inclusion. It would be very interesting to hear the back-story behind such seemingly useless glyphs.