Re: Ah the power of emoji! To encompass even science and mythology!

other interesting combinations:

- <SUN + ZWJ + UMBRELLA + COMBINING SHADOW> = parasol
- <RAINING CLOUD + ZWJ + UMBRELLA> = parapluie
- <SUN + ZWJ + WEARING GLASSES + COMBINING SHADOW> = sun glasses
- <THUNDERBOLT+ZWJ+ANTENNA+COMBINING SHADOW> = parafoudre

Note that a "combining" shadow is not absolutely necessary, but I don't how
a shadow can exist with the object creating it and giving its form to the
shadow.

The direction of the shadow does not matter (I suggest is is oriented by
default to the bottom right for LTR contexts including emojis, and to the
bottom left for RTL contexts, using Bidi controls could override this
direction). And it could easily apply to any character cluster
(transforming it into a symbol, or encoding the shadow as ignorable with
combining class 0, i.e. requiring its encoding at end of the cluster from
which it derives the shadow form to render). It would not necessarily
require new fonts (shadowing can be synthetized by text renderers from
existing glyphs)

- LATIN LETTER A + COMBINING SHADOW = shadowed letter A (the shadow to the
bottom right is a mirrored and skewed version of the letter, projected from
its natural baseline)

2017-08-24 0:53 GMT+02:00 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>:

> Why this distinction with the left oright side on which you'll place the
> "half moon" (which "half moon" when eclipses actually occur either on full
> moons or new moons?) and the Sun ???
>
> Note that Solar eclipses occur normally during the day at places where
> they are observable, but not necessarily at zeith (midday) and the
> representation of the Earth relative to the Sun, viewed from the side is in
> fact wrong: we should have a "half Earth" and a blackspot on the light hald
> of the moon or the light half of the Earth.
>
> As well, looking an eclipse from the side (from space) you will not see
> easily the eclipse occuring along the border of the light half.
>
> Given the meaning associated to the half moons used below which imply
> specific periods at which eclipses can absolutely never occur, I would not
> use these compositions at all.
>
> Showing cones of shadows would be more explicit, but I would only
> represent two discs partly covering themselves:
>
> - For the solar eclipse, a dark "New Moon" (light gray) passing in front
> of the bright solar disc and hiding it partly. The Earth would not be
> repredented directly. A coronal eclipse is also representable with some
> solar rays emerging from one border.
>
> The common perception of eclipses are the solar ones as they occur
> only during the day. They will not necessarily notice it if the solar
> eclipse occurs in the early morning for them and the Sun is still low on
> the horizon and sur to the diffusion of the solar light, by atmosphere, the
> eclipse willl be difficult to see (the shadow will be much less black, the
> effect will be similar to the presence of clouds on the horizon, they will
> feel the sun is just a bit late to wake up or is falling down a bit sooner
> and they won't feel the shift of temperatures).
>
> - For the lunar eclipse, a light blue Earth passing in front of the full
> Moon disc (dark grey) on which the Earth starts projecting a disc of
> shadow. The Sun would not be represented directly
>
> Note that many people ignore the fact of lunar eclipses when they
> occur (this occurs by night anyway, most people are sleeping. Many people
> don't know if we are in times of new moons or full moons, the night may be
> blacker than usual only because of clouds).
>
> Given the composition I hardly see how you would compose it with existing
> emojis for the (light blue) Earth emoji and the the (spotted) full moon, or
> the (dark) new moon and the "spotted" Sun, except by encoding in the middle
> a specific emoji representing both the act of eclipsing and the shadow
> cone, or using joiners with a combining shadow.
>
> - <EARTH + COMBINING SHADOW + ZWJ + FULL MOON> = lunar eclipse
> - <NEW MOON + COMBINING SHADOW + ZWJ + SUN> = solar eclipse
>
>
>
> 2017-08-23 14:48 GMT+02:00 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode <
> unicode_at_unicode.org>:
>
>> 🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse
>>
>> 🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse
>>
>> 🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse
>>
>
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