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keville
·2 năm trước·discuss
Apple II (1977) did an early version of this; it essentially had purple and green addressable colors in each pixel. With both on in a single pixel you got white text, but could also leverage two adjacent pixels, one with purple and one with green, to produce a half-pixel offset that could produce a smoother diagonal line than typical fixed coordinates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
keville
·2 năm trước·discuss
https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vib...

How about through a glass pane, off of a bag of chips?
keville
·2 năm trước·discuss
Looks like everyone's riding on a single reference to this 1968 paper that makes the 3000 BCE claim: https://eurekamag.com/research/014/507/014507621.php
keville
·2 năm trước·discuss
This article[1] mentions a composer who "composed primarily for the vibrations and included the music after the initial layout of the haptic composition." We used to put on whatever 3D glasses the theater was providing for big new 3D movies; why not don a vest to listen to Deadmau5?

[1] https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/live-music-deaf-aud...
keville
·2 năm trước·discuss
It's not well-explained in the article but there's a separate artist "playing" the haptic vests via programming, not unlike how a lighting engineer programs the synchronized light shows for a big touring act.

Instead of a DMX controller choosing entire scenes that control banks of lights in unison, or narrowing down to individual banks of lights to fine-tune things on the fly with faders, the haptic vests use similar commands and controllers to program different intensities and patterns of vibrations across the sub-regions within the vest.

The haptic engineer/artist usually has packs of go-to scenes that work well and provide distinct but complimentary effects from each other scene (just like the lighting engineer), and may have an entire effect chain pre-programmed for a song or mix, or may be choosing and mixing the haptic scenes on-the-fly as they listen to the audio.

This NPR article has a better description: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1186173942/vibrating-haptic-s...
keville
·3 năm trước·discuss
It was just relaunched a couple of months ago, after this article was apparently written. No clue if the site is any better or worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785450
keville
·3 năm trước·discuss
Would this be a good chaser after drinking a duck fart?

https://homecookedharvest.com/duck-fart-shot/
keville
·3 năm trước·discuss
It's not even "all modern scripts", it's just "all scripts":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
keville
·3 năm trước·discuss
Photoshop wasn't the one to solve this, as others have mentioned.

Adobe likely owns the xRes intellectual property, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_xRes
keville
·3 năm trước·discuss
Also including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
keville
·4 năm trước·discuss
Safari has done this for a long time when you have multiple tabs with similar titles open.

I think the intent is to increase the unique text within the tab titles when you are reading sites that have titles like "My Blog - Tuesday's Article" and "My Blog - Wednesday's Article"; otherwise these would both shorten to "My Blog - ..." as tab count increases, or as other tab width constraints come in to play.

Granted, the heuristic for identifying common text between tabs isn't always great and can sometimes just result in titles looking cut-off.
keville
·4 năm trước·discuss
That is indeed the list of colors from which the Level 3 CSS colors were adapted.
keville
·4 năm trước·discuss
Don't forget about downright heartwarming entries like rebeccapurple: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/
keville
·4 năm trước·discuss
The Federal Reserve has a board of seven governors, and twelve regional banks (one in Atlanta). Along with that board, the president of the New York regional bank, and four others on a rotating basis, form the body that votes to set policy.
keville
·10 năm trước·discuss
Apple's iCloud Drive has a decent web interface for the non-Apple subset of "any device", and otherwise seems to offer what you want. Curious if you had other reasons it doesn't meet your needs.