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3:51 AM
Yes, your innovative idea of merging text into pictures is inspiring. One way of doing it is to hide the text behind the picture. When you click the picture, 1,000+ words would jump out explaining the picture. Below is an example showing your idea.
Now when you click the picture of the negative resistance, Wikipedia would come out explaining the "N curve". And when you click the "superimposed I-V curve" the corresponding WikiBook would explain the colourful picture.
 
4:06 AM
By the way, I have been criticizing your hard to understand colourful, hand drawn, superimposing I-V curves picture. But you do inspire me to updating it to make it simple for newbies to understand. By plan is summarized below: (1) Use 4 or more MAX4172 current sense amp to measure, at the same time, four different two terminal devices (resistors, diodes etc). (2) Use one or more MPC4712 I2C built in EEPROM DAC to individually or grjoup power the diodes.
(3) Use MatPlotLib to plot the superimposed colourful I-V curves, with animated images, user interaction etc.
Ah, locking down lunch time! See you later.
 
 
7 hours later…
11:24 AM
Hi TL Fong,

I fell asleep today and now I'm in a hurry to go for my usual walk in the park. Just to tell you that I found some solution to the problem with my Flash movies. I made them as executable files that contain a Flash player in themselves. They are full-fledged Flash movies. I have sent to you by an imejl the first four of them dedicated to the most basic building blocks. Cheers!
 
 
9 hours later…
8:26 PM
Hi TL Fong, Today I started writing a big new and very interesting post about our chat here... Interesting thoughts are born in our conversations and I decided to extract and collect my most significant "pearls" in a post. I hope you will approve my idea.
If you want, you can make a reciprocal post about your ideas. I just wonder how it is possible for a discussion with only one interlocutor to be so many times more fruitful than the many questions and answers on these sites?
Your idea of mixing text and picture is very interesting. Flash provided great opportunities for such tricks and I was very fond of them.
Your idea about IV curves is very interesting. As I probably mentioned, in 90s I conducted an interesting experiment where two imposed IV curves lived on the screen. I intend to write a story about this experiment that will be illustrated with printed screenshots.
 
 
2 hours later…
10:36 PM
I have created an initial post about this chat. Later, I will structure it...
 

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