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So, I have been working on a video game for a while now, I will send random works from it around with the hashtag #GardenGame from now on, I will try to do so in as regular a basis as possible, so for today you get some plants. I will try to give something better next week

The harder life gets, the more conventionally melodic, naive and childlike my music gets.
It surprises me, but then I remember when an artist friend became very depressed (not what’s going on with me) her work went from extraordinarily detailed, insectoid abstract ink drawings to much more colourful, simple, “innocent” representational paintings.

k-Planar and Fan-Crossing Drawings and Transductions of Planar Graphs
Petr Hlin\v{e}n\'y, Jan Jedelsk\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08585 https://

k-Planar and Fan-Crossing Drawings and Transductions of Planar Graphs
We introduce a two-way connection between FO transductions (logical transformations) of planar graphs, and a certain variant of fan-crossing (fan-planar) drawings of graphs which for bounded-degree graphs essentially reduces to being k-planar for fixed k. For graph classes, this connection allows to derive non-transducibility results from nonexistence of the said drawings and, conversely, from nonexistence of a transduction to derive nonexistence of the said drawings. For example, the class of …

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

Show Me Your Best Side: Characteristics of User-Preferred Perspectives for 3D Graph Drawings
Lucas Joos, Gavin J. Mooney, Maximilian T. Fischer, Daniel A. Keim, Falk Schreiber, Helen C. Purchase, Karsten Klein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09212

Show Me Your Best Side: Characteristics of User-Preferred Perspectives for 3D Graph Drawings
The visual analysis of graphs in 3D has become increasingly popular, accelerated by the rise of immersive technology, such as augmented and virtual reality. Unlike 2D drawings, 3D graph layouts are highly viewpoint-dependent, making perspective selection critical for revealing structural and relational patterns. Despite its importance, there is limited empirical evidence guiding what constitutes an effective or preferred viewpoint from the user's perspective. In this paper, we present a systema…

14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.

Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
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I just saw the images of the DHS "rennovation" of the old St. Elizabeths in DC as the new DHS HQ.
The architectural renditions suggest that they will be turning it into something rather different than its historical shape (but the drawings i saw didn't look too bad - at least they didn't turn it into a Frank Gehry monstrosity with leaky roofs, dead-end hallways, and external stairs that require people to step open crevices.)
Given DHS head Noem's history, I …

Here are some historical drawings by @… we coincidentally uncovered today. The original drawing that inspired the version that became Glenda (and was also philw's vismon icon, not that he approved), the drawing that became the Glenda image for Plan 9, and the hamster drawing for WFMU that mutated into the Go Gopher.

My kingdom for a datasheet where all of the coordinates in the mechanical drawings are referenced to a single datum. I don't care if it's the center or a corner or what.
Anything but... this.

Today is Privacy Party, where me and @… sit down and go through all the legal documents and todos that come about when you want to do everything perfectly right regarding user privacy
It’s pretty repetitive, which is why we‘re framing it as a party where we get to virtually hang out 🥳🥳🥳

‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt?CMP=Share_iO…

Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
#Meta

On the geometric $k$-colored crossing number of $K_n$
Benedikt Hahn, Bettina Klinz, Birgit Vogtenhuber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18014 https://

On the geometric $k$-colored crossing number of $K_n$
We study the \emph{geometric $k$-colored crossing number} of complete graphs $\overline{\overline{\text{cr}}}_k(K_n)$, which is the smallest number of monochromatic crossings in any $k$-edge colored straight-line drawing of $K_n$. We substantially improve asymptotic upper bounds on $\overline{\overline{\text{cr}}}_k(K_n)$ for $k=2,\ldots, 10$ by developing a procedure for general $k$ that derives $k$-edge colored drawings of $K_n$ for arbitrarily large $n$ from initial drawings with a low num…