Visually symmetric words

#1

Post by d4a » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 3:02 PM UTC

Visually symmetric words
johndcook.com

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#2

Post by rex_lupi » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 3:56 PM UTC

Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while

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#3

Post by pbnjay » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

rex_lupi wrote: post #2

Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while

Yeah… I was really interested in thinking about how to code a solution and then the post ended.

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#4

Post by squaredot » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

I didn't expect to be surprised by this! After thinking about it, it reminds me that game about reading some color names as fast as possible, where the names are painted with another color.

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#5

Post by arketyp » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:09 PM UTC

Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.

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#6

Post by MontyCarloHall » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:14 PM UTC

rex_lupi wrote: post #2

Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while

Usually John Cook’s blog posts are extremely high quality, so I’ll give him a pass just this once.

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#7

Post by DominoTree » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:20 PM UTC

UwU

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#8

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC

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#9

Post by croes » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC

arketyp wrote: post #5

Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.

Lower case u not so much because in some fonts it's just a smaller upper case U.

But the y is as symmetrical as j or g.

Re: Visually symmetric words

#10

Post by croes » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

Isn't also the lowercase l and mirror of the upper case I?