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?
huflungdung 7 hours ago [-]
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teaearlgraycold 1 hours ago [-]
Agreed. Nice aesthetic. Terrible design.
d--b 6 minutes ago [-]
The name sounds really bad in French. Charcuterie is a pig butchering shop, usually associated with messy bloody stuff. The verb “charcuter” also refers to surgery done poorly.
But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english
Cadwhisker 6 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.
keyle 2 hours ago [-]
I like the animation work and sound, it really gamifies the experience. I question the usefulness though. But it could make a fun game experience if it were to let people match by colour or align emojis related to each other.
meodai 1 hours ago [-]
I use it to find icons I likr
wackget 2 hours ago [-]
Cool but maybe consider a different name? If I want to recommend this tool in a few weeks' time there is approximately 0% chance I'm remembering it's called something like "Charcuterie", despite the clever bit of wordplay.
emmelaich 2 hours ago [-]
The title of the page is "Charcuterie — A Visual Unicode Explorer" so a search would bring it up. [edit - tested in a incognito page]
irickt 8 hours ago [-]
"Everything runs in your browser."
That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds. :)
Several models to compare.
_qua 5 hours ago [-]
I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
tantalor 6 hours ago [-]
Ouch, my back button
SpyCoder77 6 hours ago [-]
Yeah lol
iqfareez 2 hours ago [-]
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runeblaze 5 hours ago [-]
> visual similarity
> SigLIP 2
Maybe visual-semantic similarity is more appropriate? Nonetheless the design is fantastic
meodai 1 hours ago [-]
True, thanks for the feedback
pimlottc 6 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?
tash_2s 5 hours ago [-]
Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.
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?
But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english
That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds. :)
Several models to compare.
> SigLIP 2
Maybe visual-semantic similarity is more appropriate? Nonetheless the design is fantastic