agys

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by agys 5y ago
Shut down is pretty good.
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by agys 5y ago
Readability and ultra low energy consumption (plus: they are awesome and produce a soft sound like a distant waterfall). Also, contrary on what I have seen on LED matrices or other RGB/pixel based displays: they won’t display advertise
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by agys 5y ago
We made a small project with all the 6 letter words from the Italian dictionary (as an homage to the inventor and producer of the split flap display: Solari from Udine) ordered in a way to produce “the least effort”. https://vime
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by agys 6y ago
It bothered me as a kid that the (ROM) font used in DOS had different thickness for slash and backslash… it wasn’t just a mirrored glyph. https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_ega_...
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by agys 6y ago
I want to add another train-related reference to this long list, this time audio only: El Divisadero, by experimental musician Chris Watson, an hypnotic ride on “El Tren Fantasma”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQZTXz2-7o
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by agys 6y ago
They even wrote their own “Cleaner tool”: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-in...
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by agys 6y ago
I really like the “local” grid idea: visible only around the zone of interest. Maybe the first time I see something like this?
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by agys 6y ago
I remember Jonathan Puckey* explaining this project at Resonate festival: the delay before showing the image is artificial and meant to create suspence. This is what I’d call 'user experience'. * Now at https://puckey.s
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by agys 6y ago
There was also this project of Mediengruppe Bitnik (check the video with some online bookstores): http://p-dpa.net/work/script-alert-mediengruppe-bitnik/
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by agys 6y ago
This one is excellent! Thank you for sharing it.
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by agys 6y ago
There aren’t only the functional aspects to consider when choosing a typeface: the cultural and formal aspects are also pertinent for the (hopefully erudite and passionate) designer. Does the font originate from the beginning of the previou
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by agys 6y ago
> One guy wanted me to put fireworks in his coffin so they went off during a parade, another guy wanted to be naked, lying on his front and for me to write "kiss this" on his a for when he had an open casket viewing. This rem
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by agys 6y ago
In heraldry colours can be 'encoded' with specific patterns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_(heraldry)
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by agys 6y ago
The people at Marpi Studio did some interesting interactive demos for the Looking Glass display: https://www.marpi.studio/artwork/ocean/algae-lux https://www.marpi.studio/artwork/ocean/al
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by agys 6y ago
Small typo: On being invoked, it sets out.v = field should be: (…) out.field = v
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by agys 6y ago
A believr. (sorry)
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by agys 7y ago
But there might be different busses which share the same route for a while: so you'd rather find find the first one.
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by agys 7y ago
Yes. That's the bigger one! It's strange that the list of buses is sorted by bus number and not by time… Also: finally a display where advertisement is probably not so attractive.
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by agys 7y ago
In Shanghai they are used as timetables at bus stops. Almost A2 size in some stops and smaller ones, about A4 (vertical) at others... The small ones had a clock which updated every minute (windowed mode) while the passenger data updated i
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by agys 7y ago
I did some experiment with the bare version of this display, both with the b/w and the b/w/r displays. The black and white one can be partially updated (window mode) and is a bit faster. The four sections mentioned above don&
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by agys 7y ago
In the minified code there are still a lot of Math.PI, Math.sin, Math.cos… could this not be optimised further with something like s=Math.sin…?
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by agys 11y ago
There is also Unmade using an interactive Canvas to let customers modify (not create) their designs. I was pretty amazed by the quality of the realtime rendering. A few examples: 1. Dragging the pattern around (note the deforming): https:
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by agys 11y ago
Small note: the original posters of Müller-Brockmann for “musica viva” are actually set in Akzidenz-Grotesk and not Helvetica.