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Michael Maclean
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Developer, software architect, former sailor, occasional photographer, sometime cyclist, full-time geek. He/him.
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The Greggs Semiotic Standard. The icons from a Greggs paper bag that tell you what the markings on bakes mean, redrawn in a way inspired by the icons from Ron Cobb's Semiotic Standards for the Alien films. Why yes I have been enjoying my time off, why do you ask
December 30, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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And this is for DS9, where there are an astonishing _seven_ instances of "mark two one five"! Also, a good showing for 215 in the yaw too!

This is absolutely where I got the impression from as, because it’s the best show, I’ve re-watched it more than any of the others.
Another pair of polar plots. This time, there is a big spike at 215° in the pitch plot, indicating there are a total of seven occurences where someone says "mark two one five" in the show.
December 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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By the power of matplotlib, we can turn this into a polar plot. This is heavily inspired by @lemonodor.bsky.social's code for plotting geese orientations: bsky.app/profile/lemo...

The red line has been drawn at 215°, this far, no further.

In TNG, there are four occurrences of a "mark 215"
Two separate polar plots of the yaws and pitches specified on the show. There are big spikes at low numbers like fifteen, and a red line pointing out where 215° lies at. In the Pitch plot, there are four at this point.
December 13, 2024 at 10:08 PM