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Histogrem: The Histogram Font
"Histogrem lets you make histograms right inside a text file."
fonts  charts  information_visualisation  typography  sparklines  text 
5 weeks ago by TomC
Share JS
Etherpad / Wave style collaborative editing lib for node.js/browsers.
nodejs  algorithms  JavaScript  text  editing  writing  diff  git  collaboration  googlewave  etherpad 
10 weeks ago by TomC
isaacs's gist: 1850768 — Gist
Gist driven side-debate (also on Twitter) with Isaac of Node and Brendan of Javascript, about unicode escaping/encoding issues and the prospect of full VM-level support (fixing String.length, substring etc)
brendaneich  isaacschlueter  nodejs  javascript  unicode  github  gist  text  encoding  escaping  programming  code 
february 2012 by TomC
New full Unicode for ES6 idea
Brendan Eich's followup to last week's debate with the node.js community about full unicode support in Javascript.
javascript  nodejs  brendaneich  ecmascript  standards  es6  programming  text  unicode 
february 2012 by TomC
Emoji for PHP
Cal's big table of emoji code-points and equivalencies for various different implementations, where available.
emoji  unicode  iamcal  php  text 
february 2012 by TomC
Web Symbols typeface
Interesting character mappings. Would prefer unicode symbols where they exist, but this has some things that hopefully will never be universal human concepts, like Facebook :)
icons  fonts  symbols  design  text  ui 
november 2011 by TomC
White.Steve.Blog : Kerning and animating text glyphs
Advanced TextBlock manipulation in Silverlight - looks promising.
silverlight  text  code 
october 2009 by TomC
http://readefine.anirudhsasikumar.net/
Really nice demo of the new Flash text layout stuff. Lovely looking type, nice to read.
rss  atom  flash  text  typography  news 
september 2009 by TomC
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
Lovely animated visualization showing the editing process between six editions of Darwin's Origin of Species.
processing.org  benfry  text  words  language  darwin  evolution  editing  writing  books 
september 2009 by TomC
Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' : Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!
Text halo/stroke/outline in silverlight also means repeating the text. The only way to match text rendering is to render text, apparently.
silverlight  text  design  typography 
september 2009 by TomC
Canvas Text Functions
"What could have been the holy grail of javascript to user communication was turned into a mime by the omission of text. ... Fortunately the 1960s has come to the rescue."
html  canvas  text  javascript  libraries  1960s 
august 2009 by TomC
txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
Click-through pattern matching to code generation. Haven't tried this with a real world example yet, but it looks like it's *the thing*.
regularexpressions  text  programming  code  algorithms  tools  software 
june 2009 by TomC
Line endings produced by Flash IDE CS3/4, appear to be Mac specific / Repo issues / Discussion Area - GitHub Support
Gah, it seems like git's diff routines choke on files that have been touched by Flash. Pre-commit hooks to reject bad linebreaks seem like the only sane solution.
mac  git  diff  linebreaks  text  github  argh 
june 2009 by TomC
Understanding Bidirectional (BIDI) Text in Unicode
Nice article from Cal Henderson that moves us on a bit further past "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)". Which is good, because there are some folks out there who still think that ASCII will do.
unicode  rtl  calhenderson  arabic  web  html  php  languages  text  algorithms  programming  bidirectional  bidi 
march 2009 by TomC
Whoosh
Pure python search index. (via swillison)
python  search  indexing  libraries  code  programming  text 
february 2009 by TomC
StreamGraphs Featured in Montreal Gazette Ad
Nice to see this technique getting exposure in the mainstream press (Lee Byron for NYT, now Jeff Clark for Montreal Gazette).
montreal  gazette  streamgraphs  politics  speech  text  words  language  charts  information_visualisation 
october 2008 by TomC
Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who's the Windbag?
The Venn diagrams for contributions of nouns/verbs to the debate really illustrate the tone of the two campaigns. Top notch analysis.
usa  politics  mccain  obama  debate  words  language  information_visualisation  word_clouds  analysis  text 
october 2008 by TomC
The Algorithmist - degrafa-text-along-a-spline
I haven't been tempted by Degrafa yet, so I'm pleased to hear this will be accessible to actionscript too.
as3  text  flash  curves  paths  typography  graphics  code  degrafa  flex  comment 
september 2008 by TomC
zupko.info » Blog Archive » Text in Papervision3D - Clearing things up
3D text still looks horrible IMHO. The video for Alex Gopher's 'The Child' is the only time I've seen it done well.
3d  text  flash  papervision3d 
august 2008 by TomC
TheLadders.com Developer Blog: Introducing Javascript full-text search
Client-side search in javascript. Interested in more of these, if you know of any good ones please tag them for:TomC!
search  javascript  text 
august 2008 by TomC
ActionScript Projects in Flex Builder 2.0
An example of a pure actionscript 3 (no flex) autocomplete textfield.
flash  as3  code  text  words  autocomplete 
june 2008 by TomC
Magic Lens
Nice interface for reading a transcription of a hand-written diary.
history  design  web  infterface  text  words  language 
june 2008 by TomC
PottyMouth
"PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML."
xhtml  html  tools  python  security  text 
april 2008 by TomC
Curved text
Projecting a bitmap of a textfield onto a surface. I wonder if this would be better/faster with multiple textfields and/or displacement filters?
flash  graphics  algorithms  typography  actionscript  text  curves 
january 2008 by TomC
DIAGRAM
"As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries."
diagrams  art  design  information_visualisation  magazines  poetry  writing  words  text  illustration  images 
october 2007 by TomC
hacks:typedinput [processinghacks.com]
"Here’s a way to accept typed input into your sketch, including line breaks, tabs and a blinking cursor."
processing.org  text  input  hacks 
august 2007 by TomC
Anti-Grain Geometry - Texts Rasterization Exposures
Long discursive essay with copious examples of how text rendering could be better (more accurate AND more flexible) on both Windows and Mac.
algorithms  antialiasing  text  fonts  typography  programming  gui  interfaces  2d  graphics 
july 2007 by TomC
dispatchEvent » Dynamic Text Wrapping in ActionScript 3
Details an algorithm, but not the code. I'm curious about the bugs.
text  wrapping  design  algorithms  typography  as3  actionscript  flash  programming 
april 2007 by TomC
amazing windows vista speech recognition demo
"comma comma backspace delete capitalize info correct fuck info" ... s'pretty amazing
funny  perl  text  speech  ai  windows  vista  stupid  youtube  video  picks 
february 2007 by TomC
mapping, augmented - chronotext.org
mapping flowing 3d text onto (flickr-sourced) architectural photographs, awesome (via toxi)
3d  text  typography  architecture  photography  flickr  mapping 
february 2007 by TomC
Text Fingerprints
"Today I had an idea to try to take a fingerprint of a piece of text. The fingerprint would be unique for a given text, up to some arbitrary point which would depend on how the fingerprint was defined."
text  information_visualisation  web  fingerprints  identity  patterns 
january 2007 by TomC
Dlog
document editor that replays itself
text  words  software  time  animation  writing 
december 2006 by TomC
Processing 1.0 (BETA) - Whilst text in opengl doesnt work...
"it's an isometric character set, which just happens to be ordered in unicode"
processing.org  text  technotes  picks  fonts 
april 2006 by TomC
Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS
Did somebody say something about the Takahashi method?
art  design  text  typography  music  jazz  flash  funny  presentations  poetry  takahashi 
february 2006 by TomC
Caligraft
experimental cartography made with Processing
typography  processing.org  design  generative  graphics  text 
february 2006 by TomC
Geomerative
generative graphics library for processing, including text path and polygon manipulation
processing.org  libraries  text  geometry  programming 
january 2006 by TomC
Juice Analytics | Agile Analytics Weblog - My year in attention (and yours)
Following on from Jon Udell's year in tags, another Excel-powered visualisation screen cast masterclass from Juice. Great stuff.
excel  information_visualisation  tags  del.icio.us  2005  attention  text 
december 2005 by TomC
SynchroEdit
open source, web-based subethaeditalike?
opensource  software  text  editor  web  collaboration 
october 2005 by TomC
ORTHO-TYPE.IT
very clever fully 3d font concept (via processing.org)
design  font  typography  clever  3d  java  applets  text  processing.org 
january 2005 by TomC
fasttext (by Glen Murphy)
A class [for Processing] to allow users to dump 2d text to specified screen coordinates.
libraries  programming  text  processing.org 
july 2004 by TomC

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