Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures

D'oh! Of course they are haha. It didn't even occur to me to try.

Edit: I guess one neat thing about my page is that you get a readout of the characters in your critter. Obviously you could just copy-paste from that field at the bottom of the Tunera page into any other text field and find out that way, but I did find it helpful when I was trying to experiment.

Thanks, I didn't realize this.

Great feedback, I'll look into reducing the size of that image, especially for the post headers. Thanks for checking out the site!

Wow, that is really cool. I'll definitely be playing with this later, thanks for the tip!

I think the parent means using a font to create the illusion of a continuous image, not just the concept of a pictographic font.

That game data is text, and that you reverse the game by hitting backspace are interesting ideas. I'm curious if there is any utility beyond novelty though. It's certainly very creative, I'll be thinking about it.

Hang on, since when did HN allow emoji?

Yes, like those. I guess a whole LSP that revolves around destinations and memory. To compile it is to reach some satisfactory state where the model--and this differs from person to person--reflects reality: total minutes spent or miles travelled.

I guess games already enable the forward, forward, turning, and such. But wayfinding is tacit: one person gets lost; another notes the top of the tower, descends into a dark thicket, flanks a camp of orcs, and somehow heads in more or less the way.

Of course, some of that is just going with the flow. Not so in traffic, in an unknown place, jostled by rail tracks and wondering whether to U-turn or not. (Unfamiliar roads, and was it east or west?)

A friend said they note landmarks. Or maybe one should have heuristics, like three lefts is parallel to one right. One thing for certain: without GPS, it is hopeless.

Stratagem too complex, controller is broken.

also curious

I use ChatGPT mobile app and brainstorm. I only show the child the results. Here’s a prompt: “Grim reaper wolf pet in style of Pokémon character. Make the body just out of skull and bones.”

Then I take this image to any of the number of online card creators. None are perfect. Most are half broken. You can use ChatGPT to make names. For example, we made a card for my wife who’s an attorney. We asked for character names based on her profession (law) unique last name with a fire theme. Then we asked for attack descriptions. I used these, heavily edited, to create a full card with her “likeness.”

Flaming justice hammer, anyone?!

For printing I use a laser printer w duplex. I have a trial/error workflow for lining up 4-up cards. I use a heavy poly cardstock from Terraslate. I think the 10 mil. It’s pretty close look/feel and they will last a long time.

These are purely for our own enjoyment, but we have also done play dates where we make custom cards for friends that visit.

The only downside is every kid wants their character to have 300+ HP. Ha!

It actually gets a tiny bit better for upper case letters, as the midbody character set includes both U and Y. So the winner for longest single-creature word is: ADJUDGE

Other good ones [0]:

AUTUMN IMPUGN OUTGUN SMUDGE AUGUR FUDGE FUGUE LYMPH

0: https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E%5Bacfilosw%5D%5Bdgjm...