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Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by quirm »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #42

For the curious, this explains a lot of the science in a hands-on, approachable way: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10168686/algorithm-improv... EDIT: As this is a deep topic, there are also books if that's more your style: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0123725380/?tag=stackoverfl08-20 or maybe you like Wikipedia (Ol' Trusty): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_detection_(computer_vis...

and for the very curious, my bachelor thesis is on shapecatcher, http://shapecatcher.com/B_Milde%20-%20On%20The%20Security%20...

There is a whole chapter on shape contexts in it, which I use with shapecatcher, too.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by drucken »

"If you can't find Chinese, Japanese or Korean glyphs, it is because I have yet to find a good free CJK font to use."

Are there not some CJK (or otherwise) fonts from, for example, Linux distributions that could have been used?

Or perhaps the emphasis could be on clarifying what is meant by "good" that deserves excluding such a large and useful character space for this type of application?

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by JensenDied »

FreeFull wrote: post #101
peapicker wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

& only seems to work if drawn with the top loop broken.

I was only trying to see the fried shrimp http://imgur.com/Ev3gGwd
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