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Beautiful and engaging exploration of puzzle states with graphs
Adventures in State Space
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August 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
syntagmatic.bsky.social
Hierarchical edge bundling vibe code using D3.js and Flubber
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force-directed graph with hierarchical edge bundling sunburst diagram with edge bundling radial tree with edge bundling treemap with edge bundling
June 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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annikabarber.bsky.social
If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
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January 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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rsimmon.bsky.social
Cool color-mixing paper using the Kubelka–Munk model (which incorporates light absorption & scattering) to simulate real life paint behavior in software: scrtwpns.com/mixbox.pdf

It would be interesting to play with to generate #dataviz palettes.

via @jscarto.bsky.social & Jack Morris

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Diagram with three sets of color ramps comparing real life paint mixing with digital color models. The first two compare magenta to white and blue to white, the third blue to yellow. Caption 1: Real paints gain saturation and shift in hue when mixed with white, as exhibited by Quinacridone Magenta (left) and Phthalo Blue (right). These effects are reproduced faithfully by the K–M model, unlike RGB, where colors tend to lose saturation when mixed with white. Caption 2: Mixing Cobalt Blue and Hansa Yellow in real life vs. in RGB, RYB [Gos- sett and Chen 2004], Subtractive, Subtractive-Additive [Simonot and Hébert 2014] and K–M model. The ad-hoc approaches are unable to match the K–M’s ability to predict the outcome of two pigments mixing together. Sample of simulated color mixing with different types of paint using the Kubelka–Munk model. Caption: This digital painting was done using our pigment-based color mixing approach. It was painted on an 8-bit RGB canvas with colors picked from a regular HSV wheel. Thanks to our mixing method, all simulated media such as oil paints, watercolor, or pastels look realistic and natural. The paints blend intuitively and produce vibrant secondary colors: orange, violet, and most critically, green. Diagram comparing RGB color mixing on the left compared to the Kubelka–Munk model on the right. Each column has three examples. Caption: The effect pigment-based color mixing has on traditional media simulation. When mixed in RGB, paints blend into grayish, dull colors, while our method yields intuitive, natural shades and brings the simulation of oil paints, pastels, watercolor, and other media to the next level.
January 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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OK if you're a deep #EnergySky nerd, try your hand at this Griddle trivia game from @jmelville.science and see if you can guess the country by it's electric grid supply mix. (This is hard!)
Screen shot of the Griddle trivia game, which displays a country's electricity resource mix and challenges players to guess what country it is. The game is available at https://jmelville.science/griddle/
November 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM