symbol Archives - Anton Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/tag/symbol/ Nerdy creations with numbers, words, sounds, and pixels Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:32:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://antonhoyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-baboon-lightbulb-512px-32x32.png symbol Archives - Anton Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/tag/symbol/ 32 32 Braille Selector https://antonhoyer.com/braille-selector/ https://antonhoyer.com/braille-selector/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=2816 Have you ever needed lots of particular Braille symbols for artistic purposes, but the look-up tables have almost ruined your eyesight or given you a stroke? Then be self-helpless no longer and check out my tool for the task: This interactive symbol picker is aimed toward artists who need to make Unicode art and animations […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/braille-selector/feed/ 0 Polar Cipher https://antonhoyer.com/polar-cipher/ https://antonhoyer.com/polar-cipher/#respond Sun, 05 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1562 This encryption method was loosely inspired by the 2016 science fiction movie “Arrival,” in which the alien species uses a visual language composed of circular ink blots to form words and sentences. Since I am a fan of polar coordinates, a mathematical system often used to describe circular motions in orbital mechanics, I decided to […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/polar-cipher/feed/ 0 Caidoz https://antonhoyer.com/caidoz/ https://antonhoyer.com/caidoz/#respond Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1237 This monoalphabetic substitution alphabet was inspired by the Zodiac Killer’s cryptograms. If you are not familiar with them, in addition to the Latin alphabet, he used several symbols, such as triangles, half-filled rectangles, and mirrored letters. While his cipher was homophonic to throw codebreakers off, meaning that one plaintext letter could have more than one […]

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