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dbelford
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
The AS400/OS400-like interfaces always seem like they should be more popular super-user interfaces. They seem best at navigating tree-like data but most OS level interfaces feel tree-like these days. I think the affordances work a little better than vim-keys sometimes. A vim-mode option or command palette would be straightforward.

But it would require people to use full size extended keyboard (function F rows, numpads, etc). Which shrinks the user base quite a bit.
dbelford
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
The recent movie Perfect Days (2023) seems to reflect this as well.

From wikipedia: "[Director Wim] Wenders was invited to Tokyo by Koji Yanai to observe the Tokyo Toilet Project, a project in which Japanese public toilets were redesigned in 17 locations throughout Shibuya with the help of 16 creators invited from around the world. Wenders was invited to take a look at the uniqueness of each of these facilities. At first, the producers envisioned Wenders would make a short film or series of short films on the facilities, but he opted for a feature film"
dbelford
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Is there a word/map for the transit accessibility for each point (1m^2?) on the map and drawing that? (maybe an integral of the isochrone?)

E.g. pick a point on a map, sum the area of the isochrone (30minute area? weighted sum?) to get a value at that point. Then redraw a heatmap of those points.
dbelford
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
The Heyser spiral or Heyser corkscrew seems to be a common name for this type of plot. https://www.google.com/search?q=heyser+spiral

And it connects circles, e/euler's formula, and sin/cos is a visually grokkable way.
dbelford
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
Wonderful, ISO-128 is exactly it and the wiki explains it perfectly. This seems like a fantastic sizing for pen sets.

The 0.10, 0.13, 0.18, 0.25, 0.35, 0.50, 0.70, 1.0, 1.4, and 2.0 scale with √2. I couldn't tell if other sets were just rounding or dropping the hundredths place. The rotring and staedtler both offer sets in those increments. I suppose this is just common knowledge to those who need it.
dbelford
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
In another comment you mentioned easy scaling in a photocopier. And cylinder714 linked to a description of iso-paper that mentions an ISO (ISO 9175-1) for pens.

Is there a term or place to search for pens sets that scale with A*/B* paper? Using the ISO or "technical pen" doesn't return obvious matches (from my US based search at least).
dbelford
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
Are there fields (architects, engineers?) that take advantage of the the technical pen scaling? Or scanning software that is aware of the pen/paper ratios? This seems like a great way to have some consistency in analog/digital conversions. It would be nice to have 10 years of digitized notes that all have consistent sizing after scanning.