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0 pointssamwho10mo ago0 comments

Thank you so much!

The dogs on the playing cards were commissioned just for this post. They’re all made by the wonderful https://www.andycarolan.com/.

The colour palette is the Wong palette that I learned about from https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/.

Oh, and you can pet the dogs. :)

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simonw10mo ago

I love the commissioned art! Found this post with more details: https://samwho.dev/dogs/

zerd10mo ago

Just noticed the physics simulator at the top is interactive. Then I was stacking squares on top of each other to see how tall I could make it, and started throwing things at it angry birds style. Fun stuff.

samwhoOP10mo ago

Something no one seems to have realised yet is that the hero simulation at the top of the page is using reservoir sampling to colour 3 of the shapes black.

DonHopkins10mo ago

So many nice touches that combine to be much more than the sum of the parts.

Doe's bandana is cool, your dogs must worship you for your commitment to them!

My only suggestion is a way to slow down or ^S the log to read the funny messages, since they were flying by so fast I could only get a glimpse, even with reservoir sampling.

something something "needs more emojis"! ;)

samwhoOP10mo ago

Doe’s bandana is my attempt at tasteful solidarity and support. Glad you noticed it!

I did consider a pause button for the logs but it felt too unsubtle, and distracts from the content of the post. You could argue the log messages are already distracting, but I really wanted my own take on “reticulating splines.”

You can read how the messages are constructed here: https://github.com/samwho/visualisations/blob/main/reservoir...

DonHopkins10mo ago

I THOUGHT I saw a a Herman-Miller chair fly by! So I'm not going crazy. whew

lol76810mo ago

It would've been easy to just use green for the held card and red for the discard pile.

Thank you for using a colour-blind friendly palette; as someone with deuteranopia :)

samwhoOP10mo ago

You're welcome! I think it's a beautiful palette, and I think people have come to associate me with it now so I don't think I'll ever change.

I view all of my posts using the various colour blindness filters in the Chrome dev tools during development, to make sure I'm not using any ambiguous pairings. I'm glad that effort made you feel welcome and able to enjoy the content fully.

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simonw10mo ago

I love the commissioned art! Found this post with more details: https://samwho.dev/dogs/

zerd10mo ago

samwhoOP10mo ago

Something no one seems to have realised yet is that the hero simulation at the top of the page is using reservoir sampling to colour 3 of the shapes black.

DonHopkins10mo ago

So many nice touches that combine to be much more than the sum of the parts.

Doe's bandana is cool, your dogs must worship you for your commitment to them!

My only suggestion is a way to slow down or ^S the log to read the funny messages, since they were flying by so fast I could only get a glimpse, even with reservoir sampling.

something something "needs more emojis"! ;)

samwhoOP10mo ago

Doe’s bandana is my attempt at tasteful solidarity and support. Glad you noticed it!

You can read how the messages are constructed here: https://github.com/samwho/visualisations/blob/main/reservoir...

DonHopkins10mo ago

I THOUGHT I saw a a Herman-Miller chair fly by! So I'm not going crazy. whew

lol76810mo ago

It would've been easy to just use green for the held card and red for the discard pile.

Thank you for using a colour-blind friendly palette; as someone with deuteranopia :)

samwhoOP10mo ago

You're welcome! I think it's a beautiful palette, and I think people have come to associate me with it now so I don't think I'll ever change.

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