Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
96 points
4 hours ago
| 17 comments
| charcuterie.elastiq.ch
| HN
downboots
7 minutes ago
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_qua
26 minutes ago
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I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
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siddboots
2 hours ago
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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?

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tash_2s
18 minutes ago
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Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.
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SpyCoder77
1 hour ago
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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.
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Cadwhisker
1 hour ago
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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.
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runeblaze
27 minutes ago
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> visual similarity

> SigLIP 2

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

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irickt
3 hours ago
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"Everything runs in your browser."

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

Several models to compare.

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adi_kurian
27 minutes ago
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This is quite remarkable. Great work.
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tantalor
1 hour ago
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Ouch, my back button
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SpyCoder77
1 hour ago
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Yeah lol
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pimlottc
1 hour ago
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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?
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ares623
34 minutes ago
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Reminds me of early 2000's web design with Flash websites. Those were good times.
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evilelectron
2 hours ago
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WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.
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minantom
1 hour ago
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Very cool concept and execution.
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rustystump
21 minutes ago
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This tastes delicious. The sound is perfectly restrained and animation is intentional. I wish more apps were as playful as this.
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fortyseven
2 hours ago
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Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien language they find on the UFO?
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mplanchard
3 hours ago
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Love the name, very clever
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