xkcdis a webcomic drawn byRandall Munroeand hosted atxkcd.com. It focuses onscience,mathematics,technology, and generalgeekiness, told with a light, quirky sense of humor, and at times profound philosophizing. Its art style is minimalist, told through simplestick figures. New comics are posted...
xkcdStyle = {FontFamily -> "Comic Sans MS", 16}; xkcdLabel[{str_, {x1_, y1_}, {xo_, yo_}}] := Module[{x2, y2}, x2 = x1 + xo; y2 = y1 + yo; {Inset[ Style[str, xkcdStyle], {x2, y2}, {1.2 Sign[x1 - x2], Sign[y1 - y2] Boole[x1 == x2]}], Thick,...
Quadcopter-style drones don’t work very well over long distances thanks to the limitations of batteries. If a drone has to carry its own battery, it can only hover for so long. If it wants to hover longer, it needs to carry a bigger battery, but that means more weight and faster pow...
UglyShirts This comic is a triumph of substance over style. Sure, they "characters" are usually no more than stick figures on graph paper...But who cares? They're thought-provoking, irreverent, and frequently hilarious.Add a Comment ...
Early comics often feature Megan-style characters who may or may not be identified as Megan.Randallappears not to have standardized his character lineup early in the comic's run, and as a result, certain early female characters sometimes have similar hair to Megan, but some different features....
'I think the minimalism is an important part of the style, but I'm going to have fun injecting random visual ideas and breaking the pattern from time to time. I like having the future be an unknown. It depresses me the way you know exactly what to expect from newspaper strips like ...
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It’s a game we’d been dreaming of for years: a giant rube goldberg machine builder in the style of the classic Incredible Machine games, made of a patchwork of machines created by individual xkcd readers. For more details, check out Explain xkcd’s wonderful writeup....
Putting everything in a web page made it super easy to onboard collaborators: rather than cloning a repo and installing a toolchain, they got a state of the art code editor in one click.The editor embeds rollup to compile the map files in the browser, and prettier to keep code style ...
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