Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

(charcuterie.elastiq.ch)

88 points | by rickcarlino 4 hours ago ago

15 comments

  • _qua 3 minutes ago ago

    I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.

  • adi_kurian 4 minutes ago ago

    This is quite remarkable. Great work.

  • runeblaze 4 minutes ago ago

    > visual similarity

    > SigLIP 2

    Maybe visual-semantic similarity is more appropriate? Nonetheless the design is fantastic

  • siddboots 2 hours ago ago

    Very cool concept and execution, well done.

    I don't quite understand what is going on with the "spotlight" UI concept - I can click around on the characters and it highlights an area and it also reloads the landscape local to the character that I clicked on, so I can sort of traverse the similarity landscape this way. But I feel like I might be missing some part of the visual metaphor?

  • Cadwhisker an hour ago ago

    Very impressive that I can sketch a character in the top-left and get a close match. That's a real highlight showing that there's more going on under the hood than a big look-up table.

  • SpyCoder77 an hour ago ago

    Very good design. I added a visual similarity feature to my Unicode explorer a while ago, but it is nowhere near as fast. It is at https://unicode-atlas.vercel.app if anyone would like to check it out.

  • irickt 3 hours ago ago

    "Everything runs in your browser."

    That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds. :)

    Several models to compare.

  • ares623 12 minutes ago ago

    Reminds me of early 2000's web design with Flash websites. Those were good times.

  • pimlottc 2 hours ago ago

    This is cool but the characters are awful small on my iPhone 14 Pro. Decent bit of wasted space too. Why are the characters in the previous history list (on the “rim” so much bigger than the characters I’m actively exploring?

  • tantalor 2 hours ago ago

    Ouch, my back button

  • evilelectron 2 hours ago ago

    WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.

  • minantom an hour ago ago

    Very cool concept and execution.

  • fortyseven 2 hours ago ago

    Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien language they find on the UFO?

  • mplanchard 3 hours ago ago

    Love the name, very clever