7th
December
2005
“I have been working on my improving the Levin et al. algorithm, and I’ve now completed a fairly usable beta version of my software, called Recolored. To colorize a photo in Recolored you just add markings to the different regions of the image, indicating which colors they should have. Here’s an example…”
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7th
December
2005
“Do you design your communications or do they just kind of happen? When your communication is important — that is, when you want it to be remembered — you need to think carefully and design it to resonate with your intended audience… You can improve your communication by thinking about seven ‘C’s’ of communication design: The seven C’s lay out a simple sequence which can help you start broadly and work your way down to specifics”
posted in Communications | Permalink |
7th
December
2005
“People frequently complain that they can’t remember things — and they wish their brains had more storage capacity, like today’s ever-expanding computer hard drives and RAM. If we could just improve the sheer size of our memory, we’d be able to retain and manipulate more data, and we’d become smarter and smarter — right? Not according to an intriguing new experiment by brain scientists at the University of Oregon…”
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
7th
December
2005
“In the Second World War people at home with loved ones spread far away around the world with the forces were fed a diet, often government backed, of ‘how it works’ or ‘how we will win’ technical information leaflets. Very often these would have contained superb cut away and sectioned diagrams, showing the “insides” or as was said at the time ‘the works!’ of the machines that were winning the war for us!”
posted in Illustration | Permalink |