http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2017-04-11T00:05:12Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2017-04/diablo-3-numbers/ <p>Internationalization, math and the way numbers make users feel. The <a href="https://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19996041/engineering-diablo-iiis-damage-numbers-1-22-2016">design of Diablo 3 numbers</a> is a really nice look at how these all interact.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/blog_header/d1/D1DWXXSNPGSQ1453327061230.jpg"><img src="/images/blog/d1dwxxsnpgsq1453327061230.jpg" width="600" height="213" /></a></p> 2017-04-11T00:05:12Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2016-04/legal-and-illegal-builds/ <p>Jamie Beard's talk on <a href="http://bramlambrecht.com/tmp/jamieberard-brickstress-bf06.pdf">Stressing The Elements</a> looks in detail at how Lego bricks are meant (and not meant) to fit together.</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/builds.jpg" width="600" height="315" /></p> 2016-04-30T21:52:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2016-04/sushi-towels/ <p>Why are these <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/22688949/Sushi-Towels">Sushi Towels</a> not actually available for purchase?</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/e9c4ed2268894956316c7cbc999.jpg" width="600" height="423" /></p> 2016-04-30T21:51:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-12/buildy/ <p><a href="http://playbuildy.com/">Buildy</a> seems like it might be fun, in a modern <a href="http://www.citycreator.com/">City Creator</a> sort of way, but I haven't managed to create anything cool myself (here's <a href="http://playbuildy.com/world?id=509d58bffb5fdf50c0000005">my effort</a>) and there's no good directory of player-created stuff. Have any of you been playing with it?</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/playbuildy.png" width="600" height="361" /></p> 2012-12-06T21:41:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-09/map-radio/ <p>I was sure I had posted this earlier, but the Yuri Suzuki Tube Map radio is excellent.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/23445/yuri-suzuki-london-underground-circuit-map-radio.html"><img src="/images/blog/map_04.jpg" width="600" height="428" /></a></p> <p>Particularly like some of the modified station names; Oxford Circuit, Earl's Coil, Clapham Jumper, etc.</p> 2012-09-18T16:36:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/early-world-maps/ <p>A <a href="http://socks-studio.com/2012/06/10/how-the-world-was-imagine-early-maps-and-atlases/">fascinating look</a> at early maps of the world. The relative scales vary wildly.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://socks-studio.com/2012/06/10/how-the-world-was-imagine-early-maps-and-atlases/"><img src="/images/blog/maps-04-mappa_di_eratostene.jpg" width="600" height="352" /></a></p> 2012-06-13T01:12:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-01/2749/ <p><a href="http://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1">want</a>. a thing of such beauty</p> 2012-01-23T19:58:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-10/2735/ <p><a href="http://shape.method.ac/">shape type</a> is really nicely done - that shit is hard</p> 2011-10-28T17:26:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2688/ <p>interested in transit mapping? then settle in and <a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mjr/underground/Breaking_the_rules.pdf">read this excellent paper</a></p> 2011-06-26T05:48:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2684/ <p>ooh, the why yachts are now really <a href="http://www.why-yachts.com/">for sale</a>. i'll take a dozen</p> 2011-06-23T01:04:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)