unicode Archives - Anton Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/tag/unicode/ Nerdy creations with numbers, words, sounds, and pixels Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://antonhoyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-baboon-lightbulb-512px-32x32.png unicode Archives - Anton Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/tag/unicode/ 32 32 Billennium https://antonhoyer.com/billennium/ https://antonhoyer.com/billennium/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=2933 Background This cellular automaton is a gift for my sister, who wanted art for her birthday. For the sole reason of being cryptic, I hid the easter egg ⓝⓐⓝⓞⓒⓛⓞⓤⓣ in there, meaning “tiny influence,” a reference to her moniker on Instagram. However, Billennium also is heavily inspired by a previous ant colony simulation I developed […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/billennium/feed/ 1 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 Pendulo https://antonhoyer.com/pendulo/ https://antonhoyer.com/pendulo/#respond Wed, 29 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1646 Introduction True randomness, as unachievable as it seems, would revolutionize the world of cryptography because attackers could no longer make predictions. Forget the pseudo-random number generators that rely on timing and user hardware, as they are not cryptographically secure. Better are systems based on physical processes, for example, radioactive decay or filming 100 lava lamps […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/pendulo/feed/ 0 Stegano Green https://antonhoyer.com/stegano-green/ https://antonhoyer.com/stegano-green/#respond Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=958 Steganography is the practice of concealing a message, file, or information within another message, file, or piece of information in such a way that it remains invisible to anyone who is not intended to see it. The image depicted below, with dimensions 689 × 462, contains all 21,118 characters of the text “Dermatoglyphics,” hidden in […]

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