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I found myself down a YouTube rabbit hole once of people one-upping each other by making segmented displays with fewer and fewer segments and seeing who could use the least and still have it be decipherable for all numbers
Minimum is 4 for ten digits
There was a smaller subset that challenged themselves with 3 segment displays for 0-6
Got a link to anything about that? I'd love to check it out but am having trouble finding anything.
Here's one I had in my YouTube history
I like the top comment here
at this point it's honestly easier to read a row of leds displaying the number in binary
I found another one but I feel like it's cheating since one of the segments is divided into two parts that light together.
Thanks! They're terrible, but it gets the juices flowing ...
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Please give links
It all started when I watched this video that was linked in the other comment, and then YouTube recommended more of them for days after that.
A small selection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B887D3PVYqs&t=4s&pp=ygUSc2VnbWVudGVkIGRpc3BsYXlz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQvuIq6fXEw&pp=ygUSc2VnbWVudGVkIGRpc3BsYXlz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Vm76gvrvY&pp=ygUSc2VnbWVudGVkIGRpc3BsYXlz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9YZ3I4M56g&pp=ygUSc2VnbWVudGVkIGRpc3BsYXlz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBiq1A11RK4&pp=ygURNCBzZWdtZW50IGRpc3BsYXk%3D
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Only with a rectangular 8. Doesn’t work for a ‘real’ 8. This solves that issue.
Except you have to turn the thing on its head for some numbers which I consider a worse tradeoff.
watch the video linked in another comment. There are circle based 7 segment displays, if you realy need those curves.
i can see from how you did 'real' that 8, that i don't need to remind you that there are no real 🖐️✌️🖕 :)
- ٨
- VIII
- ⠦
- 𐄎
- 𐄗
- 𐄠
- 𐄲
- η
- ፰
- ৮
- 八
- ८
- ೮
- ൮
- ౮
- ௮
- ח
- ៨
- ๘
- Ը
- ը
This. Wake up, people!
Have you ever seen a 7 segments display?
Yeah I thought about that too
Don't give New Years party glasses manufacturers any more ideas.
They won't do it because they can only sell them once
I argue that when presented with 9 normal looking numbers, the o is not an acceptable alternative to 0
So many fonts just do whatever to be different and stand out from the crowd, but all it does is making it easier to avoid them
It just looks like a lowercase 0. Lowercase digits often look better anyway.
what
Look up lowercase digits in your typography manual and be enlightened. And also start making nicer documents.
You can make every digit 0-9 with a boxy 8. Look at any 7 segment display.
I think you might like this.
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Pro tip for if you need to scratch out sensitive penned down text: don't scratch it out, it'll still be readable. Instead write other similar numbers and letters over it. Have a 9? Write a p over it, then use the circle for the bottom of an 8, then write a B over the p.. it'll be impossible to discern what the original letter or number was. Do this for all letters and you're good.
TIL dban exists for physical media.
I find setting fire to said sensitive text is usually pretty effective.
If that's not enough, separating the ashes and sending them to different continents works pretty well too.
Makes me think of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA
Straight up this is exactly what came to mind for me as well
It's a great watch for those that haven't BTW, I'd recommend it if you're curious
It's a great watch for those that haven't BTW, I'd recommend it if you're curious
thanks for the link. it's a pleasure to watch "if you're curious"
it's a very interesting channel
Literally 1984
I want a clock that illuminates like this, but I guess it'd need to be able to flip to really do it with just a 4 and 8.
It wouldn't need to flip if you just make a symmetrical upsidedown 4 on the topside of the 8.
I never write 4 that way, though
Me neither. I also cross my 7's.
Funny, I do box top 4's but don't cross my 7's
My 9's also have a tail pointing straight down though
This is literally 11 84's
Its 11 1234567890s
Arrange a high density led strip in this layout, the individually addressable ones. Then you’ve got a new digit display style