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Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
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Sep 3, 2015
Cartographic Compression http://ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/03/cartographic-compression/…
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Sep 3, 2015
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@sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing
Did you ever read my 2007 post on maps? http://ribbonfarm.com/2007/07/20/harry-potter-and-the-cuaron-slam/… Also
@kneelingbus
post on Holey Plane http://ribbonfarm.com/2012/10/23/navigating-the-holey-plane/…
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Harry Potter and the Cuaron Slam
Occasionally engineering provides me with startling perspectives on art. This happened for me with the third book in the Harry Potter series, the Prisoner of Azkaban, generally acknowledged to be t…
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Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
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Sep 3, 2015
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@vgr
@vgr
there was something else of yours that was relevant but I can't think of the nouns involved
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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@sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing
adjacency fallacy and calculus of grit had a lot of mapping/orienteering allusions, but weren't specifically about maps
11:35 PM · Sep 3, 2015
Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
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Sep 3, 2015
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@vgr
@vgr
this was it http://ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/27/warrens-plazas-and-the-edge-of-legibility/…
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