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add text rendition of height of uk #2

Open alvierahman90 opened 3 years ago

alvierahman90 commented 3 years ago

something like this but for the whole of the uk: image

derpac commented 3 years ago

Here is the height data

alvierahman90 commented 3 years ago

these unicode shape characters may come in handy if %black is used to mean height:

https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/geometric_shapes/list.htm

particularly:

name (code) character
BLACK SQUARE (U+25A0) ■
WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE (U+25A3) ▣
BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE (U+25FC) ◼
BLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE (U+25FE) ◾
BLACK SMALL SQUARE (U+25AA) ▪
BLACK RECTANGLE (U+25AC) ▬
BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE (U+25AE) ▮
BLACK CIRCLE (U+25CF) ●
SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK (U+25E9) ◩
SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK (U+25EA) ◪
alvierahman90 commented 3 years ago

image

black square not looking very black in github dark mode lol

alvierahman90 commented 3 years ago

oh and these dots may be useful:

https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=DOT https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=DOTS

particularly:

character name character
MIDDLE DOT ·
SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNC­TU­A­TI­ON ⸬
SOGDIAN PUNC­TU­A­TI­ON CIRCLE WITH DOT 𐽗
FIVE DOT MARK ⸭

and the braile pattern dots from here https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=DOTS

derpac commented 1 month ago

Currently done with canvas and colour heatmap