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Something like: http://imgur.com/wgDRIyL http://imgur.com/wgDRIyL Also a physical example: http://imgur.com/mI0ETBu http://imgur.com/mI0ETBu But still fiddling

by ortuna 12y ago

Something like: http://imgur.com/wgDRIyL http://imgur.com/wgDRIyL Also a physical example: http://imgur.com/mI0ETBu http://imgur.com/mI0ETBu But still fiddling with fonts and line spacing and spacing between columns. I did this manually and tested physical print, which came out really nice. and you can read the code!

JoshTriplett 12y ago
While the ability to read snippets of code is fun, you want to aim for a more striking visual style. Consider adding syntax highlighting specifically to add splashes of color, and doing something to make the columns look less uniform and newspapery.
- ortuna 12y ago
  I was thinking of the ability to upload a logo, but the logo would only overlay the text and not the background.
  - JoshTriplett 12y ago
    That suggests an idea that would require significantly more image processing to do, but would provide a huge amount of value: can you analyze the logo and the source code, and construct a large image of the logo out of snippets of source code, using code/whitespace density for shading? A print-resolution poster of a project logo constructed out of that project's source code is definitely something I'd pay money for, and lower-resolution versions will work well on social media.
  - stevekemp 12y ago
    That would be nice. I remember I contributed to the "Mozilla" advert which ran in in a newspaper a few year ago. That had a logo made up of the names of the people who had similarly donated.
- techdragon 12y ago
  I once did this with some stuff during reverse engineering, I printed about 20 portrait orientation A3 pages in colour of source code at the largest font size I could without inducing any lines to wrap.... With that, some post it notes and a nice pencil I was able to spot the problem in the control flow I hadn't seen when moving around the source file on my computer screen. I'd be much more likely to buy this kind of thing in colour.

by ortuna 12y ago

JoshTriplett 12y ago

While the ability to read snippets of code is fun, you want to aim for a more striking visual style. Consider adding syntax highlighting specifically to add splashes of color, and doing something to make the columns look less uniform and newspapery.

ortuna 12y ago
I was thinking of the ability to upload a logo, but the logo would only overlay the text and not the background.
- JoshTriplett 12y ago
  That suggests an idea that would require significantly more image processing to do, but would provide a huge amount of value: can you analyze the logo and the source code, and construct a large image of the logo out of snippets of source code, using code/whitespace density for shading? A print-resolution poster of a project logo constructed out of that project's source code is definitely something I'd pay money for, and lower-resolution versions will work well on social media.
- stevekemp 12y ago
  That would be nice. I remember I contributed to the "Mozilla" advert which ran in in a newspaper a few year ago. That had a logo made up of the names of the people who had similarly donated.
techdragon 12y ago
I once did this with some stuff during reverse engineering, I printed about 20 portrait orientation A3 pages in colour of source code at the largest font size I could without inducing any lines to wrap.... With that, some post it notes and a nice pencil I was able to spot the problem in the control flow I hadn't seen when moving around the source file on my computer screen. I'd be much more likely to buy this kind of thing in colour.