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Humming-Birds

91 points by warrenm 3y ago

warrenm 3y ago
>Digital edition of John Gould’s monumental work depicting all known species between 1849 and 1887
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latchkey 3y ago
Edited down to 3 points or more... Discussions on similar submissions: Hummingbird Moths https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141165 (August 15, 2023 — 3 points, 0 comments) Why Hummingbirds Are Evil: Procrastination, Laziness and Play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068319 (March 8, 2023 — 14 points, 0 comments) Humming birds suffer if they move uphill to escape the warming climate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551162 (May 29, 2022 — 3 points, 0 comments) Hummingbirds can smell their way out of danger https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438202 (September 6, 2021 — 36 points, 1 comments) Hummingbirds see colors we can’t even imagine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576582 (June 20, 2021 — 3 points, 0 comments) Ecuadorian hummingbirds chirp ultrasonic songs of seduction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880572 (July 18, 2020 — 20 points, 1 comments) Hummingbirds Can See Colors We Can’t Even Imagine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725179 (July 3, 2020 — 4 points, 0 comments)
- pvg 3y ago
  They're not really discussions without comments so just end up being links to nowhere.
  - latchkey 3y ago
    Sadly people don’t seem to discuss hummingbirds on HN, yet they do post a lot about them. Links to nowhere seems unfair, along with the downvote.
    - pvg 3y ago
      There's a convention of posting previous discussions so people can see previous discussion. If there's no discussion and you think the links themselves are interesting, you can just post the links.
      - latchkey 3y ago
        I did post the links. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
        mikestew 3y ago
        ...and advertised them as "Discussions on similar submissions", where no discussion took place. Just post the links, as parent recommended, rather than making readers go through the intermediate step of clicking an HN link. And then clearly label it as "other links about hummingbirds" rather than "Discussions...". :-)
        latchkey 3y ago
        2 of the links did have comments. The bike shedding over 'discussions' versus 'comments' is amazing.
        pvg 3y ago
        It's pretty much the HN convention, you can find lots of moderator and other comments about it. Posting links to previous significant discussions makes sense, posting links to links a lot less so.
        3y ago
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koliber 3y ago
This site is amazing! Hummingbirds are neat in and of themselves. The typography is pleasant, the illustrations nice, the interaction streamlined, and the layout and look & feel just right. Take the time to explore the rest of the site and his projects. This is a rare breed of a designer who through execution breathes new life into something relatively mundane.
- meristohm 3y ago
  Yes, c82.net is great. I visit the Werner's Nomenclature of Colors page relatively frequently.
matrix12 3y ago
Bumble birds are amazing.
rgovostes 3y ago
The "making of" process—generating random points and then using them to position the bird illustrations at each point—does not make a lot of sense to me. The final bird positions are nowhere near the random points. https://www.c82.net/images/blog/hummingbirds-murmuration-v1-steps.jpg https://www.c82.net/images/blog/hummingbirds-murmuration-v1-... A possibly better approach would be to use Bridson's algorithm with a radius that roughly corresponds to the size of each bird image. You could reject points that are outside the overall shape. https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/poisson-disc-distribution https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/poisson-disc-distribution
ksoped 3y ago
I was looking through it thinking "Wow this is beautiful, reminds me of that Euclid one I saw a while back". Nicholas has done it again. Man doesn't miss

Humming-Birds

91 points by warrenm 3y ago

warrenm 3y ago

>Digital edition of John Gould’s monumental work depicting all known species between 1849 and 1887

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latchkey 3y ago

Edited down to 3 points or more... Discussions on similar submissions: Hummingbird Moths https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141165 (August 15, 2023 — 3 points, 0 comments) Why Hummingbirds Are Evil: Procrastination, Laziness and Play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068319 (March 8, 2023 — 14 points, 0 comments) Humming birds suffer if they move uphill to escape the warming climate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551162 (May 29, 2022 — 3 points, 0 comments) Hummingbirds can smell their way out of danger https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438202 (September 6, 2021 — 36 points, 1 comments) Hummingbirds see colors we can’t even imagine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576582 (June 20, 2021 — 3 points, 0 comments) Ecuadorian hummingbirds chirp ultrasonic songs of seduction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880572 (July 18, 2020 — 20 points, 1 comments) Hummingbirds Can See Colors We Can’t Even Imagine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725179 (July 3, 2020 — 4 points, 0 comments)

pvg 3y ago
They're not really discussions without comments so just end up being links to nowhere.
- latchkey 3y ago
  Sadly people don’t seem to discuss hummingbirds on HN, yet they do post a lot about them. Links to nowhere seems unfair, along with the downvote.
  - pvg 3y ago
    There's a convention of posting previous discussions so people can see previous discussion. If there's no discussion and you think the links themselves are interesting, you can just post the links.
    - latchkey 3y ago
      I did post the links. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
      - mikestew 3y ago
        ...and advertised them as "Discussions on similar submissions", where no discussion took place. Just post the links, as parent recommended, rather than making readers go through the intermediate step of clicking an HN link. And then clearly label it as "other links about hummingbirds" rather than "Discussions...". :-)
        latchkey 3y ago
        2 of the links did have comments. The bike shedding over 'discussions' versus 'comments' is amazing.
        pvg 3y ago
        It's pretty much the HN convention, you can find lots of moderator and other comments about it. Posting links to previous significant discussions makes sense, posting links to links a lot less so.
        3y ago
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koliber 3y ago

This site is amazing! Hummingbirds are neat in and of themselves. The typography is pleasant, the illustrations nice, the interaction streamlined, and the layout and look & feel just right. Take the time to explore the rest of the site and his projects. This is a rare breed of a designer who through execution breathes new life into something relatively mundane.

meristohm 3y ago
Yes, c82.net is great. I visit the Werner's Nomenclature of Colors page relatively frequently.

matrix12 3y ago

Bumble birds are amazing.

rgovostes 3y ago

The "making of" process—generating random points and then using them to position the bird illustrations at each point—does not make a lot of sense to me. The final bird positions are nowhere near the random points. https://www.c82.net/images/blog/hummingbirds-murmuration-v1-steps.jpg https://www.c82.net/images/blog/hummingbirds-murmuration-v1-... A possibly better approach would be to use Bridson's algorithm with a radius that roughly corresponds to the size of each bird image. You could reject points that are outside the overall shape. https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/poisson-disc-distribution https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/poisson-disc-distribution

ksoped 3y ago

I was looking through it thinking "Wow this is beautiful, reminds me of that Euclid one I saw a while back". Nicholas has done it again. Man doesn't miss