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Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning
We first published our paper on relief shading using neural networks towards the start of October 2020, and now almost 2 years later, we are very excited to share Eduard .
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Like a Designer
In this article, we talk about the definition of kerning and its importance in design. Learn more about kerning here, and start kerning like a pro!
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Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437?
There's a small house in the moddle of IBM's Code Page 437. Why?
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Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
I spent 24 days digging into the code of {Shan, Shui}* Chinese painting generator and lived to tell the story.
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Making nice-looking and interactive diagrams for your PCBs
I have always liked pinout diagrams like this: Arduino Nano Pinout. Source: http://www.pighixxx.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/nano.pngThey work quite well, there is all the information and they look nice. However, they work only when you have pins on two sides of the PCB and once you squeeze too much information…
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UML: My Part in Its Downfall
In the last year or two there has been a slow but steady trickle of articles attempting to account for UML ’s lack of long-term success (if you have time for only one, I suggest Hillel Wayne’s article ). As fate would have it, I had some involvement in UML standardisation in the early 2000s, so I saw some of the…
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How Sketch Took on Adobe
When Pieter Omvlee was tasked with designing a simple drawing application as part of his computer science class at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, he set about creating a lightweight app that would fulfill his homework assignment. In the late 2000s, the vector drawing app market was a lot smaller than it…
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Light Mode InFFFFFFlation
Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was light, and that was fine. What we didn’t notice is that light…
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CSS Is Fun Again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time…
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Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)
Whenever I watch videos of how things are made, I marvel at the cleverness of the manufacturing machines. Retired engineer Duc Thang Nguyen has created over 170
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Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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UI is hell: four-function calculators
One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in interface design.
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Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works
Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
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Recreating sci-fi terminals using VHS
I heard about VHS recently. It’s a tool for creating recordings of command-line tools, so you can create little demos and tutorials about how to use them. You can write a script to run comman…
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Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
I’d like to preface this case study by stating that my intentions behind redesigning Apple Music were in no way driven by indignation or…
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1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)
「君たちはどう生きるか」の場面写真を提供致します。 現在、劇場公開中の「君たちはどう生きるか」の場面写真 14枚を、本日から提供いたします。 これまでの分と同様に、常識の範囲でご自由にお使いください。 君たちはどう生きるか14枚 2023.08.04 提供開始 2020.12.18 提供開
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This website has no class
Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.
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Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
Garamond is widely considered one of the greatest fonts ever made. But the things that make Garamond so beautiful also make it a problem.
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Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence
In 1997 I received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for work I had done on procedural texture. For example, the NYU Torch on the right is made entirely from procedural textures (except for the text along the bottom). The flame, background, and metal and marble handle…
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CSS Optical Illusions
A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.
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Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)
The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
Tove Jansson illustrated books of other appreciated authors during her career. One of them was J. R. R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
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Folk Interfaces
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems