Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

(charcuterie.elastiq.ch)

110 points | by rickcarlino 4 hours ago

17 comments

  • siddboots 3 hours 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?

  • _qua 1 hour ago
    I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
  • SpyCoder77 2 hours 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.
  • downboots 42 minutes ago
  • Cadwhisker 1 hour 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.
  • irickt 4 hours ago
    "Everything runs in your browser."

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

    Several models to compare.

  • tash_2s 53 minutes ago
    Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.
  • runeblaze 1 hour ago
    > visual similarity

    > SigLIP 2

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

  • tantalor 2 hours ago
    Ouch, my back button
  • pimlottc 2 hours 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?
  • adi_kurian 1 hour ago
    This is quite remarkable. Great work.
  • evilelectron 2 hours ago
    WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.
  • minantom 2 hours ago
    Very cool concept and execution.
  • ares623 1 hour ago
    Reminds me of early 2000's web design with Flash websites. Those were good times.
    • ebruchez 0 minutes ago
      Oh no they weren't!
  • rustystump 56 minutes ago
    This tastes delicious. The sound is perfectly restrained and animation is intentional. I wish more apps were as playful as this.
  • fortyseven 2 hours ago
    Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien language they find on the UFO?
  • mplanchard 3 hours ago
    Love the name, very clever