http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:11 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/garamond-pens-revisited#post-1615 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:41:50 +0000 DHinNH 1615@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I just saw the Garamond item too.</p> <p>Garamond is the official font of the company for which I work, exactly because it causes us to use less ink. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/garamond-pens-revisited#post-1614 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:27 +0000 nathany 1614@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>hehe, yes, but not nearly as cool-looking :) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/garamond-pens-revisited#post-1613 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:44:13 +0000 edwcarney 1613@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Just saw the Garamond item (<a href="http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/29/save-pens-use-garamond-font" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/29/save-pens-use-garamond-font</a>) today.</p> <p>I wrote some Perl script to read a BMP file of three fonts, all set to 24 point and displayed on a screen. The size of the BMP was identical in all three cases, so the position of the text within the BMP field made no difference as long as it did not impinge on the border of the image. The script reads the BMP file and counts the black pixels/white pixels and expresses the number of black pixels as a percentage of all pixels (black + white).</p> <p>I used the following text:<br /> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz<br /> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ<br /> 0123456789</p> <p>Here are the results in descending order of "ink usage."</p> <p>Font: Arial<br /> Percent of black = 11.975%</p> <p>Font: TimesRoman<br /> Percent of black = 8.360%</p> <p>Font: Garamond<br /> Percent of black = 6.062%</p> <p>Faster/cheaper than pens. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem-1#post-819 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:34:29 +0000 seb 819@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>CPAN-Explorer is a visualization project aiming at analyzing the relationships between the developers and the packages of the Perl language, known to be organized as the CPAN community (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). Produced by RTGI Labs and Gephi team, it was initially discussed in a talk at the FPW’09.</p> <p>You can download original graph source files from each subproject page.<br /> Available formats are: GEXF (Gephi graph format), GDF (Guess graph format), SVG, and PDF.<br /> For some of the subprojects, an embedded javascript visualization is also available. For the community graph, a special Flash webpage is available for online exploration.</p> <p>Website: <a href="http://www.cpan-explorer.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpan-explorer.org/</a><br /> Detailed blog post : <a href="http://gephi.org/2009/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem/" rel="nofollow">http://gephi.org/2009/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/3663258420/" title="CPAN Community map de gephi_org, sur Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3663258420_6af8866444.jpg" width="500" height="391" alt="CPAN Community map" /></a> </p>