I’ve always been horribly confused by American sockets. They’re fine if you have a three-pronged plug, but I never know which way round a two-pronged plug is meant to go.
Further background on this: prior to a flight out to Oregon, I downloaded Batik. Not knowing anything about SVG, I created this picture using only vim.
Hmm. Modern North-American plugs actually have a slightly larger left socket than right socket, with the neutral contact on the left and the live one on the right. See wikipedia
Sam - nice work - I didn’t even know about the Batik project. Any plans to share the source code for your ‘interface’ generator?
Arien - as for the simple comment, well, the fact that the range of interfaces (~13) can be summed up in one reasonable length web page is somewhat of a indication of the relative simplicity.
That said, the page does highlight one point - the electrical outlet interface contract seems to be somewhat broken. Based on the ‘Electricity around the world’ guide, it looks like the same outlet interface may supply electricity at different voltages in different countries.
Jason: interface generator? The only tools I used were a text editor, the batik-rasterizer, and a browser.
What amazes me is that a few years later, I can post the results without explanation; and people will not only know what to do with it — they will also instantly recognize the resulting graphic despite the rather crude rendition.
Sam - maybe I was being a bit too subtilely tongue-in-cheek when I used the term ‘interface generator’ ;)
I see the Batik rasterizer converts SVG files into a raster format, but I was a little thrown off by your comment about ‘not knowing anything about SVG’. Did you use the other components of Batik to help create the initial SVG doc, or was it a case of just immersing yourself in the spec and doing some good old-fashion experimentation?
Jason, I copied an example (I no longer remember which one), and slowly morphed it until I got the desired result. In the process, I referenced the spec only for very specific and targeted questions.
Wow. Self-cloning robots. Check out the vid. As a trained AI guy, I’ve had to study the theory, but when you see one, it’s equal parts cool and creepy. Maybe it’s a T-alpha. But as a metaphor for SOA or REST uniform interfaces, it will rock. I don’t know how you could look at that movie and feel the same way about custom interfaces afterwards as you did before. Wall sockets don’t quite capture it. [via Richard]......
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Wow. Self-cloning robots. Check out the vid. As a trained AI guy, I’ve had to study the theory, but when you see one, it’s beautiful. And creepy. The word I’m looking for is sublime. Maybe it’s a T-alpha. But as a metaphor for SOA or REST uniform...
