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Building a Kite for Antarctica
Since the U.S. Antarctic Program prohibits the use of remote-controlled aircraft, i.e., drones, how might one go about taking aerial photographs at the South Pole? The answer is kite aerial photography, which of course requires a kite. While my original … Continue reading
BICEP Cookies
Earlier this week, this year’s BICEP / Keck collaboration meeting was held at Harvard (we build, operate, and analyze data from cosmic microwave background telescopes installed at the South Pole). As a collaboration member at the host institution, I decided … Continue reading
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An Improved CMB Map Colormap
Although a variety of colormaps have previously been specifically developed for displaying cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps, none of these have been designed with perceptual uniformity or color-vision-deficiency (CVD) accessibility in mind. To improve upon this status quo, in support … Continue reading
Pre-calculated Line Breaks for HTML / CSS
Although slowly improving, typography on the web pages is considerably lower quality than that of high-quality print / PDF typography, such as that produced by LaTeX or Adobe InDesign. In particular, line breaks and hyphenation need considerable improvement. While CSS … Continue reading
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A Case Study in Product Label Regressions
Sometime last year, the Shop & Shop and Giant (of Landover) grocery store chains began introducing redesigned packaging for their store brand products. The two chains share a parent company and share branding, so the labels only use the shared … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Miscellaneous Tagged canned vegetables, design, Giant, labels, Stop & Shop Leave a comment