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I'm hoping (praying!) that the issues have now been resolved, but should the site go screwy again, I'll keep you all updated via my Twitter account, Patreon page and DevArt gallery. I've been having some issues with my webhost, which has been the cause of the page appearing blank for some, and that 'error 503' message. Hollo, folks! You probably noticed the disruption to the site across the last couple of weeks. If you DO plan on going, be sure to check out their Covid-related entry restrictions before hand. I've had a table booked since early 2020 and will be there, perched under my Solo Endeavour banner, peddling prints, doodling pictures and chatting to anyone who wants to stop by. Hopefully 2022 will be a little kinder to us all!Īlso the London Film and Comic Con looks like it's finally going ahead, having been delayed multiple times due to the pandemic. Thank you very much for sticking around, despite the numerous technical issues and delays that have plagued my work across the past 12 months.

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The potential of this form to explain difficult concepts is unmatched and underused.įor another comic-style explanation (this time, an art analysis), see Tom Oreb's Portrait of Ward Kimball.Last update of the year, folks. The comic form is about sequences of tightly-integrated words and pictures, together conveying a message more powerfully than the sum of their parts. Let alone superheroes or anthropomorphic animals. Whereas, for the material near the end, pictures are coupled to entire paragraphs, and the pictures serve as examples for concepts conveyed by words:įinally, 'comic-style' needn't mean characters, dialog, word balloons, or sound effects. Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of communication.

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For the description of the algorithm, pictures are coupled to individual sentences or even fragments, and the words serve to explain the action in the pictures: What is it Literally, it is a series of images and/or words in a sequence. The roles of pictures and prose can be fluid. For more on subtle supplemental interactivity, see Explorable Explanations. This interaction is optional and supplemental - it's available for a reader who wants the clarification, but can be skipped by a reader who already understands (or doesn't care). I've used a small amount of lightweight interactivity (via hover-sliders ) to allow the reader to see the progression of the algorithm, in-place, over many steps. Illustrating the state of an algorithm at each step can make the description dramatically easier to follow. In order to understand what the algorithm is doing, we have to 'play computer' and imagine the state in our head. When an algorithm is described in prose (or code), we are typically given only the rules of the system - we can't see the data or the state.

The word count (and reading time) of a graphic novel is far less than that of a comparable prose novel. Paradoxically, making lavish use of space can result in briefer writing - illustrations allow for terser prose. We can use as many pixels as we need to explain a concept. I apologize for omitting the good stuff.)Ī computer screen is not space-constrained like a physical journal. (The paper goes on to identify several real-life networks as small-world, and discuss the implications for dynamical systems. In particular, infectious diseases spread more easily in small-world networks than in regular lattices.

Models of dynamical systems with small-world coupling display enhanced signal-propagation speed, computational power, and synchronizability. The neural network of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the power grid of the western United States, and the collaboration graph of film actors are shown to be small-world networks. We call them 'small-world' networks, by analogy with the small-world phenomenon (popularly known as six degrees of separation). Delines hypnotic adventures: Subject A (4) AnArtLife 47 0. Super Tits vs RedHead ST (cover) Labyssitory 37 3. Borderline Brendas Bedtime Brouhaha ArtbroJohn 55 4. Mature content Doujin This can be called sabotage Shaii64 18 0. We find that these systems can be highly clustered, like regular lattices, yet have small characteristic path lengths, like random graphs. Mature content Doujin My Clone dont let me Bath Shaii64 24 0. Here we explore simple models of networks that can be tuned through this middle ground: regular networks 'rewired' to introduce increasing amounts of disorder. But many biological, technological and social networks lie somewhere between these two extremes. Ordinarily, the connection topology is assumed to be either completely regular or completely random. Networks of coupled dynamical systems have been used to model biological oscillators, Josephson junction arrays, excitable media, neural networks, spatial games, genetic control networks and many other self-organizing systems.

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