Kaktovik Hex - Featural compact binary/base16 - (xpost SLRPNK)
Hex characters 0-F don’t visually provide any information about the underlying binary. I can’t tell from reading 0-F representations of hex if a specific bit is set or not. It’s necessary to convert to binary to notice things like parity set to odd/even/none. But raw binary isn’t compact enough to easily look at.
Kaktovik Hex is a compact binary and hex representation based on some of the ideas behind Kaktovik Inupiaq. It supports the same visual arithmetic as Inupiaq, but also supports things like visual XOR. The bits of each nibble are represented as either | (for ones), V (for 2), or empty (for 0). The lower two bits are on the bottom, the upper two are rotated on the top. Every symbol can be written without lifting a pen.
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It reminds me of this, made by a French comedian/singer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary
That is extremely cool.
That is interesting and actually easy to learn but it has one major design flaw imo: the 2^3 symbol looks way too much like 5 / 2^2+2^0
I standardized it in a later rev. I'll post some follow ups later.
Before I knew about this community, I created a community on slrpnk.net. I'm closing that one down and switching over to this one. I've since made a few changes, commissioned a font, and will follow up with another post that has that progress.