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		seanp2k2 on Feb 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want For the curious, this explains a lot of the science in a hands-on, approachable way: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10168686/algorithm-improv... EDIT: As this is a deep topic, there are also books if that's more your style: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0123725380/?tag=stackoverfl08-20 or maybe you like Wikipedia (Ol' Trusty): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_detection_(computer_vis...

quirm on Feb 2, 2013 [–]

and for the very curious, my bachelor thesis is on shapecatcher, http://shapecatcher.com/B_Milde%20-%20On%20The%20Security%20...

There is a whole chapter on shape contexts in it, which I use with shapecatcher, too.

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