Month: October 2024
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Yesterday my partner Gayla and I spent a bit of time at one of the small public beaches that is close enough to our place to be a quick drive away. We live in Canada near the northern shoreline of Lake Erie. From that beach we can look across the relatively small and shallow waters of Erie and, on clear days, see the shoreline of New York, a small wedge of Pennsylvania, and possibly a bit of Ohio. This beach has a small lightly tended woody park between the thin cottage service road and the water. Tall oaks, shag bark…
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In graphic design, grids are often used as the scaffolding that gives page elements a structure to align to. The underlying grid of a book page might supply a set of ratios for how text sizes relate to each other, how an image sits on a page, and even the subtleties of a where a page number hugs a corner. In many scientific and technical applications, grids become ways to translate measurements into a reliable visual form or they might form the cell structure for a matrix of data. Maps have a fundamental grid as latitude and longitude lines help…