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Durable Design (2017)
It seems like small thing, but it’s an engineering detail I’ve always had a lot of respect for.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 122 posts.
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A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera
A completely rebuilt digital Polaroid SX-70 camera
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“Origins of the Apple human interface” lecture – an annotated transcription
The lecture was delivered by Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa in 1997 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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Building a Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor
What would a modern motion graphics editor look like?
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Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience
A complete rundown of the entire process behind designing and building a new map for the world of Cogmind, and explaining how it integrates with gameplay.
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Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand
Branding and brand design for Firefox. Brand identity and brand expression. Firefox web browser brand evolution. Masterbrand and product brand system.
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How to Draw Animals (1930)
Les Animaux tels qu'ils sont par R. et L. Lambry sur le site de l' Agence Eureka (cliquez sur les images pour les agrandir) ...
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A Tiling Desktop Environment
I've been thinking about graphical shells recently. One of the great things about open source desktops is there is a plethora of choice when it comes to graphical shells. However they seem to fall into two camps: Full featured desktop environments that stick to the conventional stacking window metaphor. Narrowly…
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Depth of Field
Depth of Field from random sampling
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The Evolution of Web Design (2016)
The Evolution Of Webdesign is a collection and imitation of Webdesign Trends from 1991 to 2020.
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Flexible data tables with CSS Grid
Now that we've launched, I can finally talk about the secret project I've been working on for the last two years. One interesting piece of the Teamwork CRM puzzle was the "list view". It's a powerful page component which exists seven times in the app — a table on steroids essentially. I could talk about it…
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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS
谁向云端着此亭，檐前树木映窗棂。 -- 释绍嵩《陪赵知府登桃岭山亭》 (image from 中国窗棂) The traditional Chinese window lattice has a symmetrical beauty, as well as a very beautiful formal name -- 窗棂.
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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
There’s a lot of fantastic research into 2D graphics rendering these days. Petr Kobalicek and Fabian Yzerman have been working on Blend2D , one of the fastest and most accurate CPU rasterizers on the market, with a novel JIT approach. Patrick Walton of Mozilla has explored not just one, but three separate approaches…
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“Users want control” is a shoulder shrug
Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.
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Applying the Gestalt Principles to Code
It’s one of the most repeated phrases in software, but is also quite easy to forget - you spend more time reading code than you do writing it. According to the…
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The Problem With Hexagons
H exagons are ubiquitous in wargames now (indeed, both Philip Sabin’s War: Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games and Peter Perla’s The Art of Wargaming feature hexagons on their book covers), but this wasn’t always the case. My first wargame – the first board wargame for many of us – was Avalon Hill’s original…
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What design tools get wrong
Modern design tools, of both the vector and code kind, are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the context that we currently design for. The remnants of fixed-dimensions are still visible in all and the tools are not helping…
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
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Photos from Crude Sketches: Nvidia's GauGAN Explained Visually
In this article I'll be explaining how GauGAN converts simple blobs of color into photorealistic paintings of landscapes.
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The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015)
<p class="indent">People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so let’s take a look at the two colours in comparison (there are various shades of purple and violet, and the following
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Ton Roosendaal and Blender receives ASIFA-Hollywood Ub Iwerks Award
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org