(surprisingly noone said this) Too bad it doesn't generate links to drawing results.
Hosting uploaded images exposes sites to a great deal of annoyance.
Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#72My 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
> the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist???
A softbank-based Emoji set was imported (in an extended form) into Unicode 6.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan...
Because Emoji originated in japan messaging, a number of them relate to japanese culture: foodstuff (not just fried shrimp but rice balls, dango, oden, fugu), cultural practices (kadomatsu, hinamatsuri, koinobori, Fūrin wind chimes) and other such things which may be present in other cultures but usually not as prominently (e.g. Unicode Love Hotel)
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#732 previous discussions.
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Sha...
Maybe the author can write a post detector next.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#74It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
Pile of poo http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/128169
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#75Earlier 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" ($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian a…
Why would you use this tool to lookup common characters found on your keyboard? Maybe a better idea is to show uncommon characters first.
Exactly, this is why priors for latin alpha characters are not set that high - you have them on your keyboard already.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#76(surprisingly noone said this) Too bad it doesn't generate links to drawing results.
I was working on this last weekend - sorry I didn't know someone would post this is again to ycombinator ;)
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#77My simple, clean ampersand (&) became a paperclip (0x1f4ce), a "fried shrimp" (0x1f364), several species of geometric triangle, and dozens of other silly, silly glyphs. http://i.imgur.com/NLkl75J.png the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response: http://abstrusegoose.com/496
Experiments with some common glyphs. (!) -- 8th suggestion, after three apparently identical "upside-down 'i'" (including an "upside-down capital 'I' with a dot underneath") (@) -- 1st suggestion (#) -- not suggested. Top suggestion is "capital 'H' with stroke" ($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian a…
There is a prior probability in the results - but it's hard to balance it so that latin characters don't dominate the results if you search something else. That is why I opted for the way it is now - this is a tool to find unicode characters, you have latin characters on your keyboard. It's not really meant for OCR
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#78Couldn'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
You have to draw the snowflakes
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#79It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
i must be pretty terrible at drawing the snowman, because I couldn't get it to match that.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#80Earlier 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…
There is a prior probability in the results - but it's hard to balance it so that latin characters don't dominate the results if you search something else. That is why I opted for the way it is now - this is a tool to find unicode characters, you have latin characters on your keyboard. It's not really meant for OCR
You could do prior probability conditional on not being available on a US keyboard, or at least make that an option.
edit: just read your comment elsewhere on the page indicating that you do something like what I described.