What means
It is the first still in a three-frame explosion animation. The Mattel Aquarius explosion symbol came from the computer’s fixed character set for games. Released in 1983, the home computer lacked programmable graphics, so designers prepared ready-made figures, explosions, and backgrounds. This first frame occupied character slot D3.
To animate the Aquarius explosion graphic, a game could replace this glyph with the next frame in the same screen cell. Printed together, the three characters stay still; only software makes the sequence move.
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1Why does explosion frame 1 appear as a box?
The font may lack this glyph, so the app shows a missing-character box. Font coverage controls the drawing; the text still contains the same character.
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- Search it as
- aquarius · sprite · game · animation · blast · pixel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜷽\1CDFDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.