Though the term waypoint has come into fairly common use in recent times, the concept has existed for as long as we have been navigating. Waypoints have traditionally been associated with distinctive features of the physical world – such as mountains, rock formations, lakes, buildings, and so on. With the advancement of technology and times, waypoints have become increasingly abstract, often having no obvious relationship to any distinctive feature of the physical world. Such waypoints are used to define invisible routing paths for navigation. And for the sake of this discussion/article, we will stick to the following definition of a waypoint: a set of co-ordinates – latitude & longitude, and sometimes altitude – to uniquely identify a point in our physical universe.
String2Image – A Web Utility To Convert Strings Into Graphics
Why Strings As Graphics, you ask? There are a myriad of reasons and/or applications where strings need to converted to graphics and one such, probably most commonly seen, application is to put our email address on the web. We want it there but we don’t want anyone (the bots) stealing it. If nothing else, this web based utility should help us a bit in that regard.
As I have done previously for other utilities – LaTeX2Graphics and KannadaLaTeX2Graphics – I have used Andreas Reigber‘s simple yet elegant (command line) utility called TeX2Im. Using this web-based utility is pretty simple. Just type-in (or paste) the string in the form and copy/save the graphic to your computer.
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