I do like plus 3 much better. The pace and timing feel fine. I went back to look at the previous versions because I had such a strong emotional reaction to the plus covering up the numbers. Guess what? It still really bothers me. I have no idea why, but I have a very strong frustrated feeling when that plus covers up the numbers.
And guess what? In your conjugate animation, where the plus covers the numbers, this bugs me too. But the feeling isn't as strong. It's more like a vague bugging feeling opposed to a flash of intense frustration. :) What was wrong with the gold halo you gave numbers in that video with the sparkles that no one except me liked? C On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:09 PM, bob therriault <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey everyone, > > The longer and larger version of Conjugate is now posted at: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/plus > Comments regarding speed, movement, content and clarity are welcome > (especially from newcomers). Is this a useful animation? > > Cheers, bob > > On -Mar12-2010, at -Mar12-20108:17 AM, bob therriault wrote: > > > I love that quote Catherine, > > > > Going back to your frustration at the 'hiding' of the Conjugate (+) > operation in vectors and matrices, I realized last night that the solution > may not be in showing the way the individual instances of Conjugate work on > each atom of a matrix, but by using more scalar examples initially to show a > wider range of inputs and outputs for Conjugate. > > > > Today, i'll work at putting together a 'Club Mix' of the shorter > animation. It'll have more examples, be larger and run a little longer. This > might be a bridge between the short reference version and the longer > tutorial version that may include interaction and/or voice-over. If both > versions were kept on the reference page the user would have a choice > between a quick check, or a more extended description. > > > > Cheers, bob > > > > On -Mar11-2010, at -Mar11-20104:14 PM, Catherine Lathwell wrote: > > > >> To quote Ken, when I first talked to him about the doc project... "Maybe > all > >> that Art School is good for something after all!" :) > >> > >> shhhhhh.... don't tell I didn't know how J does minus! :) > >> > >> C > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Catherine - APL uses the same character for the same thing - it's just > >>> positioned differently. > >>> > >>> BTW - your feedback is particularly valuable - please continue... > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Devon > >>> > >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Catherine Lathwell < > [email protected] > >>>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> What's the deal with the _ character? Is this how J works these days? > >>> I'm > >>>> not really up on the J vocabulary, so I didn't understand conjugate > >>> before > >>>> this... so it took me a couple of runs to figure out that it's *minus > >>> *you > >>>> mean. My first few rounds, I was scratching my head trying to figure > out > >>>> what the heck you need an underscore in your number for. > >>>> > >>>> ... > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Devon McCormick, CFA > >>> ^me^ at acm. > >>> org is my > >>> preferred e-mail > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Catherine Lathwell > >> http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Catherine Lathwell http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
