Eli Parra  

@elzr

Load-bearing visual explanations: diagrams, comics, animations.. Math, beauty, philosophy, programming, science, mind, lifestyle, music, finance..

Guadalajara, Mexico  
Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2007.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 1. velj
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Thanks Keyur! There’s a slight confusion here in that the design isn’t meant to correlate size with importance but with movement freedom (1 or >=2 squares). Have never played Bughouse but from what I gather, the design applies there too since pieces move in the same way. :)

  2. 1. velj
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    Good catch, piece size is actually correlated to movement freedom and that only roughly correlates with importance. The lines are either 1-square-long or 2-squares for moves or 2 or more squares. That makes the exceptional ♚ king a small omnidirectional star with 1-square arms.

  3. 19. sij

    Here's how I track a habit like 🏊‍♂️🏋️‍♂️ exercise or 🎹music practice: if I do it at least 3 times per week, I've sustained the habit & my weekly streak is unbroken. It's a nice mix of flexibility, minimum & motivation that works for me. My longest 2019 streak was 17 weeks!

  4. 23. pro 2019.

    William Godwin’s Political Justice/1793 is fantastical scientific philosophy. It inspired the best such book yet, ’s Beginning of Infinity/2011. Mary Shelley, Godwin’s daughter, cristallized modern sci-fi with Frankenstein/1818, philosophical scientific fantasy.

  5. 15. pro 2019.

    5 years ago I also made a comic/collage about the 5 things I was most passionate about: online communities, learning, interface culture, documents & counters. The references are now a bit dated but each facet has only grown richer with time. It remains a map of my heart & mind.

  6. 8. pro 2019.

    Here’s some more of his work. Follow him here on Twitter or Instagram: It has me seeing panels everywhere I look!

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  7. 8. pro 2019.

    l love the fourth-wall breaking of ! His panel-breaking feels native to comics: a playful bending of both time (sequence) AND space (layout, perspective). Such meta games often mess with causality but he’s all about shifts in perception & POV. cc

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  8. 5. pro 2019.
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    Most of what I do in Bear is keep a journal. Each week I manually make 3 (linked) notes: a day-log for events & daily living, a thought-log for musings, a work-log for project notes. I also keep tracker notes for areas of focus like sleep, exercise, piano or cooking.

  9. 5. pro 2019.
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    I used to think of images as wasteful but they're such a rich, portable, instant way to preserve context! With Bear it's finally easy, fast & useful enough to have images in my journaling: I just drag or copy/paste them & don't have to worry about naming, filing or layout.

  10. 4. pro 2019.
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    It’s not my design :) It just came up in my research. I actually found many variations of that particular chart so I don’t even know if the originator is known. Such creativity out there! Like the sunray monthly mood tracker (of which I also found many variations).

  11. 30. stu 2019.
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    The movement, enabled by dot-gridded notebooks (!), seems to me about drawing your own interface & dashboard. Coming up with the representations that work best for you, sharing them, redoing them to internalize & evolve them. Not a bad inspiration for UI’s future!

  12. 29. stu 2019.
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    Back in another life I went deep into note-taking inside Vim and created my own personal syntax with crazy amounts of highlighting & concealing. It evolved for almost a decade but I moved to Bear last year to play with different ideas (like embedded images!).

  13. 29. stu 2019.
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Have you seen Vim’s concealing? It’s another take on WYSIWYG. It allows you to hide text unless you’re currently editing that line. I used it to hide JSON’s verbose quoting when reading but have it at the ready when editing:

  14. 15. stu 2019.
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    Have lecterns that artfully make every candidate look the same height. Trivial debate change with likely major impact. On-brand both to hidden-motives you & to egalitarian Democrats. Hat tip to ’s

  15. 6. lis 2019.

    Cubes, however, can't be dissected into finitely many unequal cubes! Littlewood states it beautifully in his 1953 Mathematical Miscellany (from a 1940 paper by Tutte et al). It's philosopher Ian Hacking's favorite example of a fresh, satisfying proof. Here's the proof as comic:

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  16. 6. lis 2019.

    Squares can be dissected into non-repeating squares! This is called perfect square dissection, squaring the square. This one's the smallest possible, a lovely arithmetic/geometric pattern you can check sudoku-like. See & 's thread for lore.

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  17. 26. ruj 2019.
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    Thanks! You're right, coming up with an alternate digit "alphabet" was a great step forward. But as long as they're also words, the most natural symbol for zero is their word-dividing interpunct (·). It's easy to think of it as ignorable & it makes these numbers into phrases!

  18. 25. ruj 2019.
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    How about sketching trees? They can take you from Roman to positional numerals in a short, visual path that skips algebra. It’s all about looking for the most beautiful visual & symbolic patterns, the most regular & self-similar.

  19. 22. ruj 2019.
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Yes to all this! I was also very taken by how self-similar Huizenga's spiral was: circles in a circley coil, growing as they zoom. Biological structures are made of such coilings to achieve density! I'm even imagining a zoom interaction like 's Osmos.

  20. 21. ruj 2019.
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    A fitting layout to explore biology’s towering, nested structure is a zoom spiral! 🧬 From ’s The River at Night /via

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