[HN Gopher] $1 Unistroke Recognizer
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       $1 Unistroke Recognizer
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2023-11-13 13:53 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (depts.washington.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (depts.washington.edu)
        
       | 4ndrewl wrote:
       | Reminds me of the old Palm Pilot input mechanism, Graffiti
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | I cannot seem to draw a right curly brace in a way that it
       | recognizes it. It's almost as if the recognition was rotation-
       | invariant because I sometimes get v or check as a false positive
       | for }.
        
       | bagels wrote:
       | It does not seem to recognize 'left handed' versions of the
       | gestures. Try to draw a curly brace from the bottom up, or the
       | star in a counterclockwise pattern.
        
         | cushpush wrote:
         | Stroke-order dependent?
        
         | smokracek wrote:
         | I noticed this too. Draw a left curly brace from the bottom up,
         | it calls it a right curly brace, and the reverse is true as
         | well.
        
         | jldugger wrote:
         | That's intentional, afaict. The circle in the diagram
         | represents the stroke start point.
        
         | verdverm wrote:
         | This is a family of recognizers. I used the $P or P+, which do
         | much better for your case, I was drawing boxes
        
       | pvg wrote:
       | Ongoing discussion at
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249891
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Thanks! Macroexpanded:
         | 
         |  _Ship Shape_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249214 -
         | Nov 2023 (49 comments)
         | 
         | Also, in case of interest:
         | 
         |  _$1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046822 - May 2021 (65
         | comments)
         | 
         |  _$1 Unistroke Recognizer_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10245928 - Sept 2015 (41
         | comments)
        
       | have_faith wrote:
       | I used the Flash version of this when I was in university to make
       | some funky art installations. Funny to see it pop up over a
       | decade later.
        
         | Minor49er wrote:
         | Is there more information about the installation available?
         | Sounds like it would be a cool project
        
       | thomastjeffery wrote:
       | So the _name of the thing_ is  "$1"...
       | 
       | How stupid do we have to be with names??!?!
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | Was expecting cheap hardware, then looked through the whole
         | page trying to figure out what this had to do with money.
        
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