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Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by Groxx »

nwh wrote: post #19
uvdiv wrote: post #17

My simple, clean ampersand (&) became a paperclip (0x1f4ce), a "fried shrimp" (0x1f364), several species of geometric triangle, and dozens of other silly, silly glyphs. http://i.imgur.com/NLkl75J.png the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response: http://abstrusegoose.com/496

Who doesn't love 🍤? There's lot of other strange Unicode too. There's things like '⁢' (U2062 INVISIBLE TIMES), ⓞⓓⓓ ©ⓗⓐⓡⓐ©ⓣⓔⓡ ⓢⓔⓣⓢ and sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uʍop ǝpısdn. All of which can be used to bypass filters and generally cause browser-crashing havoc. For example, this address looks like Google, but it really links to hacker news. ‮ http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth

I love that link example xD I never thought of doing that!

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

bryze wrote: post #93
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #92

It claims Chinese/Japanese/Korean is unsupported, but works fine for me: http://i.imgur.com/AQBybDT.png

Is that the only character you tried? Try writing "論" and see what happens..

I tried 四 and it didn't work. I guess Hiragana and Katakana work, but not Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by Raphael »

peapicker wrote: post #70
uvdiv wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Experiments with some common glyphs. (!) -- 8th suggestion, after three apparently identical "upside-down 'i'" (including an "upside-down capital 'I' with a dot underneath") (@) -- 1st suggestion (#) -- not suggested. Top suggestion is "capital 'H' with stroke" ($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian a…

$#& - all were my first suggestion... perhaps I draw them better than you do? :)

dollar sign works if you draw the vertical line all the way through.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

#96

Post by Raphael »

speeder wrote: post #45
uvdiv wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who doesn't love 🍤? I just discovered the OS X terminal renders the friend shrimp glyph in color! edit: and it's now my $PS1.

Yes, I tested pasting "🍤" to my OSX, and was surprised by a color rendering of a friend shrimp. (yes, you can copy the character between "" and paste in your OSX terminal)

fried!

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by quirm »

quasque wrote: post #90

Pretty neat, but I'm not sure what else it wants me to draw here http://i.imgur.com/rfU10rj.png Also it seems to fail on badly-drawn birds http://i.imgur.com/IZgrRkq.png

1) it does count edge pixels - recognition is based on the shape of what you draw, so for the algorithm, a black picture is like a white one (but I admire your endurance to paint it all black) 2) server is under heavy load atm, it might drop some requests - just retry
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