rjvin

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Ramsophone: A generative art/music machine(robertvinluan.com)
4 points by rjvin 10y ago|0 comments
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by rjvin 12y ago
A lot of fonts these days come with 4 different styles of numerals/figures ( http://fontfeed.com/archives/figuring-out-numerals/ ). Typographically each has its different uses: inline with lowercase letters you
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by rjvin 12y ago
the most likely scenario is that the screen is simulated.
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by rjvin 13y ago
Yeah it's more of an insight into the design process than any sort of 'plea'. It should also be noted that for their previous game, Puzzlejuice, they also released all the emails/prototypes/images that documented th
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by rjvin 13y ago
They mention that. "But why is Threes better? It’s better for us, for our goals." and then later: "that’s what’s better to us as game designers. We worked really hard to create a simple game system with interesting complexit
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by rjvin 13y ago
Shameless self promotion: we're having a hackathon specifically geared towards designers and developers working together: http://designandhack.org/
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by rjvin 13y ago
> As a result, many of the people coming out of professional design schools, trained in the esthetics of flat, non-interactive design see themselves as 'above' all that 'computer stuff'. I feel like this doesn't
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by rjvin 13y ago
I don't know how true that is. There are a lot of things in expensive fonts that provide intrinsic quality: more character sets (greek and cryllic for example), openType features like conditional ligatures, more kerning pairs, extra we
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by rjvin 13y ago
My personal rule on carousels is that they're okay to use if you don't care if your user only sees one of the slides. But if that's the case then you might as well just not have a carousel in the first place.
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by rjvin 13y ago
It's a good thought, but it's named wrong. Emphasis on 'psds vs not psds' makes it seem like it's about the tools, but it's not: it's about the process. Most of the problems stated in the article can be so
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by rjvin 13y ago
I'm pretty sure it's all of them: http://www.typography.com/cloud/the-fonts/
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by rjvin 13y ago
You can absolutely just buy the font and serve it yourself: http://www.typography.com/fonts/whitney/styles/whitneyscreen... edit: ok, I didn't read their EULA. Nevermind.
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by rjvin 13y ago
related: Here's an illusion that lets you see true cyan. http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/eclipse-of-mars-illusion.... Your eyes can see the color, but your monitor can't represent it.
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by rjvin 14y ago
I guess what I was referring to was more that, if you wanted to measure someone's musical ability, you can look at the hours they practiced as something that correlates. Which is what the researchers did. For skills like creativity or criti
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by rjvin 14y ago
Cool, but I don't know how this applies to things that aren't as measurable as musical ability. What about more intangible things like creative or critical thinking? Also, the violin hasn't changed in hundreds of years, which means the val
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by rjvin 14y ago
I don't think the application of this technology would be the way it is on this page: likely it would detect your face and then set the text accordingly, and then leave it alone. A constantly changing text size is bad interaction anyway.
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by rjvin 14y ago
there are a few reasons I can think of to use tiny type. For one, designers who are used to print might not understand that things should be bigger on the web, because you generally read websites at a further distance. Second, most fonts ar