Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

(charcuterie.elastiq.ch)

134 points | by rickcarlino 6 hours ago

20 comments

  • siddboots 4 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?

  • arttaboi 15 minutes ago
    This is impressive! Thanks for sharing.
  • ssss11 9 minutes ago
    Sounds delicious!
  • Cadwhisker 3 hours 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.
  • _qua 2 hours ago
    I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
  • irickt 5 hours ago
    "Everything runs in your browser."

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

    Several models to compare.

  • tantalor 3 hours ago
    Ouch, my back button
  • tash_2s 2 hours ago
    Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.
  • LowLevelKernel 35 minutes ago
    WOW. JUST WOW ‼
  • pimlottc 3 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?
  • runeblaze 2 hours ago
    > visual similarity

    > SigLIP 2

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

  • downboots 2 hours ago
  • adi_kurian 2 hours ago
    This is quite remarkable. Great work.
  • evilelectron 4 hours ago
    WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.
  • minantom 3 hours ago
    Very cool concept and execution.
  • ares623 2 hours ago
    Reminds me of early 2000's web design with Flash websites. Those were good times.
  • fortyseven 3 hours ago
    Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien language they find on the UFO?
  • rustystump 2 hours ago
    This tastes delicious. The sound is perfectly restrained and animation is intentional. I wish more apps were as playful as this.
  • SpyCoder77 3 hours ago
    [dead]
  • mplanchard 5 hours ago
    Love the name, very clever