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in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Recreate the Amstrad PenPad with uxn? (Both are 8bit machines with similar sized memories)...
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

daaaang that’s impressive. Could open up some trackpad-only device options like Uxn on old PDAs maybe?
in reply to Tendigits

@tendigits yeah maybe 😁 I'll finish implementing some characters, and then the goal would be to make it so I can enter the Uxntal alphabet.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_alphabet.html
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

that's cool. those directional artefact glyphs are pretty interesting. how does line length factor in? by the looks of that translation only direction counts?
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

oh wow, doing it with directions like this is something I’ve never considered, how interesting
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

this is very neat! it makes me wonder how different people's writing styles could be catalogued based on their stroke direction / order for different letters ... and i wonder if a similar algorithm could be used in reverse to create generative handwriting-style text
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Very, very cool.

You also reminded me of a gesture recognition system for Squeak called Genie that was similar but could be defined to have different gesture mappings per Morph (UI element)

in reply to Kirtai

With it, you could control the whole system with a pen and gestures.
in reply to Kirtai

@kirtai do you know if there's anything about left on the internet anywhere, I can't find much before an entry on the squeak wiki. I'd love to look into it more
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Yeah, it seems to have mostly disappeared 😞​

I was able to get it working with SqueakJS (run Squeak in the browser) and the downloads from https://files.squeak.org/3.5/

Specifically the contents of these files.
Squeak3.5-5180.zip
SqueakV3.sources.gz

Then go to https://squeak.js.org/run/ and upload the sources, image and changes file and you'll have Squeak with Genie in it in your browser.

The code is in the system browser under the categories Genie-Engine, Genie-UI and Genie-Integration.

Mastodon is refusing to let me upload the docs so I'll paste them in replies... /sigh

in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

I sent the main docs from the image (the main class comment) to your email since mastodon doesn't seem to like attaching text files in any form.
😞​
in reply to Kirtai

@kirtai I have squeak running but not genie, I expected it to be in the widgets?
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Holy crap, it's a funny thing to wake up and get suuuuuper excited to find what is essentially palm graffiti on uxn. Seriously... watching uxn progress is like apple release-announcments for propeller-heads. #grail.rom
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Devine Lu Linvega
@marcellerusu @jack I'm adding graffiti-like support for inputting special characters at the moment, those are getting pretty weird.
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

@marcellerusu This is part of what I was (too obliquely) pointing towards. You usually either end up with a special set of unambiguous strokes that are not quite how you would write normally, or you fall down a well of statistical inference to handle the ambiguities using context.
in reply to Jack Rusher

@jack @marcellerusu yeah, I think modes toggle to disambiguate is what's needed to connect context to stroke. I'm playing with Genie on Squeak to see how they did that atm.
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

@jack @marcellerusu I’d suggest taking a look into Graffiti too. I think that you’d appreciate the simplicity of it, as it’s basically just tracking the pen across a small virtual grid.

One thing that I liked about Graffiti on PalmOS was that there were two areas for inputting data: alphabet and numeric. With a hack, upper case letters could be input by drawing them between the numeric and alphabet areas.

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