[HN Gopher] Charcuterie - Visual similarity Unicode explorer
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       Charcuterie - Visual similarity Unicode explorer
        
       Author : rickcarlino
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2026-04-09 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (charcuterie.elastiq.ch)
 (TXT) w3m dump (charcuterie.elastiq.ch)
        
       | irickt wrote:
       | "Everything runs in your browser."
       | 
       | That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds.
       | :)
       | 
       | Several models to compare.
        
       | mplanchard wrote:
       | Love the name, very clever
        
       | siddboots wrote:
       | 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?
        
       | evilelectron wrote:
       | WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.
        
       | fortyseven wrote:
       | Anyone else think of the film 'Hangar 18'; specifically the alien
       | language they find on the UFO?
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
       | Ouch, my back button
        
         | SpyCoder77 wrote:
         | Yeah lol
        
       | minantom wrote:
       | Very cool concept and execution.
        
       | SpyCoder77 wrote:
       | 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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