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Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny
Use math and programming to turn serious scientific diagrams into humorous hand-drawn-like sketches. Even online app to try it.
- dbaupp 14y agoxkcd-style graphs in your language: - Mathematica: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-style-graphs http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-st... - Matlab: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12701841/xkcd-style-graphs-in-matlab http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12701841/xkcd-style-graph... - R: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12675147/how-can-we-make-xkcd-style-graphs-in-r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12675147/how-can-we-make-... - TeX: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74878/create-xkcd-style-diagram-in-tex http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74878/create-xkcd-sty... I've really enjoyed all these questions! Thanks to the original asker. The TeX ones are especially neat because they are a vector graphic, no image distortion involved.
- celias 14y agomatplotlib: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1329 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1329
- JGM564 14y agoThis also links to an interesting article describing how to create an xkcd self referential chart. http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/07/self-description/ http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/07/self-description/
- mulligan 14y agoWhen will wolfram alpha do this for me?
- taliesinb 14y agoWe already have a framework that can do this kind of thing -- see http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=blur+plot+of+sin(x) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=blur+plot+of+sin(x) -- but because of our release schedule, it'll take around 2 weeks for the xkcd code to make it to production.
- snprbob86 14y agos/blur/xkcd/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=xkcd+plot+of+sin(x) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=xkcd+plot+of+sin(x) I'll be back in two weeks to click that link :-)
- spwmoni 14y agoOr just, you know, take 5 seconds to scribble something in mspaint.
- grakic 14y agoI would love to see this in the next CERN ATLAS presentation slides. Someone should ping Fabiola Gianotti ;)