Finalize Character Sets

curlysemi / nume

number name scheme

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Finalize Character Sets #2

Open curlysemi opened 5 years ago

curlysemi commented 5 years ago

Obviously, the character sets are not finalized. This issue can be for general character set discussion.

~I noticed an issue with the current consonants:~ ~R-CLEAN is currently after R-CEDILLA and R-CARON.~ ~Fixing this issue will be a breaking change.~ FIXED IN 98c6679530907d468bb7b211eda5a0735c57674b.

Also, I guess I'm mis-remembering, but I thought I took out all BREVEs since they are can be too hard to distinguish from CARONs. That may have been in an earlier version, though.

curlysemi commented 5 years ago

Two ideas I've had to salvage this scheme to support 'searchability':

Alternative to accents using background colors. We'd need at most 10 distinct colors to be interoperable with the current set. Also, there are colorblind people that need to be accounted for.
Generate 'avatars' (shapes/colors) to go along with the nume. The avatars would contain additional encoding info.

Also, another, simpler scheme is a 105-set of consonant-vowel pairings. It'd be 24 elements for an address, but that's really 48 characters.

Looks like I only removed BREVEs from thee consonants.

curlysemi commented 5 years ago

Here's a quick sketch to find the number of elements required to meet our target (the size of an Ethereum address):

TARGET=2**160
def find_length(set_size):
    length = 1
    while True:
        if set_size**(length - 1) < TARGET and set_size**length >= TARGET:
            return length
        else:
            length = length + 1

curlysemi commented 5 years ago

>>> find_length(41)
30

If we remove a few more characters from the sets, we only add 1 more character to the overall length, which isn't too bad. Instead of presenting accents for final disambiguation, we could use ANSI background colors for each character:

black
red
green
yellow
blue
magenta
cyan
white

For colorblind folk that don't want to deal with the accents, we could present shapes under/above each character.

curlysemi commented 5 years ago

I had to go down to 40 characters, as I decided to designate black as the "clean" color (unaccented characters) since I didn't want to rely on whatever the user might've set as their background color.

Full numes are currently 31-characters long in v0.10.2-beta (dev branch).