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Unicode dots

Unicode Dots

⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠉⠛⢿⠿⣿
⣿⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣻
⣿⣆⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿
⣿⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿
⣿⣷⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣷⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

After playing with Unicode barcodes, I noticed that the Unicode Braille Patterns (U+2800) had all possible combinations of the 8 dots. It was a fairly simple program to turn a bitmap image into a dot-matrix version, which renders nicely on Twitter (posting as https://twitter.com/unicodedots @unicodedots).

Source code github.com/osresearch/unicodedots

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Last update: November 8, 2020