(unrelated rant that finds comfort in the faceless: despite popular misconception, being a straight A student does not make you hate school any less than any other)
(Despite hating school so much, I've had no idea what to do with the rest of my life until recently; where, much to my surprise, I've found myself wanting to be a teacher)
A good friend of mine failed a Literature Essay marked by our class teacher (who has nothing against him), and then got the highest mark in our class on the next essay (which was marked by an external marker). He didn't change the effort he put into the subject (he's past the point of caring)
Another friend got the highest average through the whole year last year! He's averaging a fail this year. Once again his attitude/effort didn't change (different class to mine, btw, so it's not just a single teacher messing things up)
My parents are telling me to take up Engineering(lol. :P) and considering that I am not getting any other reputed college to take up Physics, might as well heed their advice
If a pixel is really an ink "blot," what shape might that blot be in order to make pixel-wide lines in every direction look almost equally thin and almost equally sharp?
With current graphics, gray scale is used in a way that trades off thickness against sharpness.
Relief would come from the rule that overlapping ink isn't twice as dark, just 0 or 1 at each "spot." (A blot is made of spots, whose grid is infinitely finer than pixels.)
A roundish blot makes horizontal and vertical lines thicker than diagonals, and that's hard to escape unless you go wiggly or sprayed (hopefully fractal) so that different overlaps cancel equally.
The square floor of a square room was covered with colored 1 square unit tiles.The covering tiles were designed to have different (solid) colored tiles that forms rectangular areas but none of these areas have the same dimension. How many tiles are needed to cover the smallest floor?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
My dear friend researches and designs canal irrigation systems in a remote desert. He's been missing for two weeks. Members of his research team have reported erratic changes in his behavior prior to his disappearance, and t...
The square floor of a square room was covered with colored 1 square unit tiles.The covering tiles were designed to have different (solid) colored tiles that forms rectangular areas but none of these areas have the same dimension. How many tiles are needed to cover the smallest floor?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
My dear friend researches and designs canal irrigation systems in a remote desert. He's been missing for two weeks. Members of his research team have reported erratic changes in his behavior prior to his disappearance, and t...
