What means
It let game makers build figures from preset characters.
Aquarius built game screens from fixed character tiles; its software could not draw movable sprites (separate game figures). Mattel's set supplied ready-made poses and backgrounds.
This upper tile sits above its matching lower half on the next row; side by side, they do not make one runner.
How did Aquarius Logo teach animation?
By changing a screen turtle into a two-part runner.
A 1983 review says Aquarius Logo taught animation by changing its screen turtle, a cursor used for drawing, into the two-part runner.
Unicode preserves this character set for text conversion, emulators and text-mode graphics.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type
𜷪\1CDEACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.