diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 9e8a6aa..364fdec 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,2 +1 @@ public/ -images/ diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml index 0370fdf..a3b967e 100644 --- a/config.toml +++ b/config.toml @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ taxonomies = [ ] theme = "apollo" +mathjax = true +mathjax_dollar_inline_enable = true [markdown] # Whether to do syntax highlighting diff --git a/content/sundries/a-very-digital-artifact/index.md b/content/sundries/a-very-digital-artifact/index.md index 9d7fc7d..38ba049 100644 --- a/content/sundries/a-very-digital-artifact/index.md +++ b/content/sundries/a-very-digital-artifact/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ +++ -title = "A Very Digital Artifact" -slug = "a-very-digital-artifact" -date = "2022-11-11" +title = "A Thoroughly Digital Artifact" +slug = "a-thoroughly-digital-artifact" +date = "2023-01-11" [taxonomies] tags = ["3dprinting", "CAD", "GIS", "CNC", "art", "sundries", "proclamation"] +++ @@ -133,13 +133,13 @@ second](https://gisgeography.com/srtm-shuttle-radar-topography-mission/) (which "GL**1**"), or roughly 30x30 meters, and the height data is accurate to within 16 meters. Not too shabby! -The only problem was that you could only download data covering up to 450 square kilometers at a +The only problem was that you could only download data covering up to 450,000 square kilometers at a time, so I had had to download three or four separate [GeoTIFF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoTIFF) files and then mosaic them together. A GeoTIFF file is basically an image where each pixel represents one data point (so, a 30x30 square meter plot) centered at a particular location on the Earth's surface. It's a monochrome image, where height is -mapped to brightness, so the lowest spot is `0` (black), and the highest spot is `65535` (brightest -white), since each pixel is a 16-bit integer. +mapped to brightness, so the lowest spot's value is `0` (black), and the highest spot is +`65535`[^16-bit-ints] (brightest white). These files are not small ## Thanks, California state! @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ https://data.ca.gov/dataset/ca-geographic-boundaries [main_image]: PXL_20220723_214758454.jpg "A plywood slab carved with CNC into a topographic representation of California" -[programmers_creed]: programmers_creed.jpg "jfk overlaid with the programmer's creed: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" +[programmers_creed]: /images/programmers_creed.jpg "jfk overlaid with the programmer's creed: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" [meshy-cube]: meshy-cube.png "an overly-complicated mesh of a cube" @@ -173,4 +173,7 @@ deck](https://pages.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs3621/SLIDES/Mesh.pdf) for a pretty "mesh basics" (but not really that basic, that's just academics trolling us, don't let it bother you). If I'm wrong about a 2D sheet with a hole being possibly manifold, I invite correction! -[^chekhovs-ram]: A classic use of Chekhov's Scarce Computational Resource. +[^chekhovs-ram]: A classic example of Chekhov's Scarce Computational Resource. + +[^16-bit-ints]: Each pixel is 16 bits, so the possible values are from 0 to 2^16 - 1. 2^16 is 65536, +so there you go. diff --git a/content/sundries/a-very-digital-artifact/programmers_creed.jpg b/static/images/programmers_creed.jpg similarity index 100% rename from content/sundries/a-very-digital-artifact/programmers_creed.jpg rename to static/images/programmers_creed.jpg