Comments on: A little Sunday Relaxation with puzzlemaster Scott Kim

A little Sunday Relaxation with puzzlemaster Scott Kim

taz — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:41:10 -0800

Just My Type. Sharpen your eye for letterforms by matching each close-up snapshot with the letter it came from, or test your eye for color with Color Me RGB, a couple of the interesting braincandy games from Scott Kim. (Also see his gallery of Inversions; I love "Figure", and the clickable tessellating alphabet.)

By: Gyan

Gyan — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 03:17:16 -0800

Nice candy.

By: fvw

fvw — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 03:33:59 -0800

Ungh, brain candy isn't supposed to hurt this much. I got 9 in a row on the color matcher though. Good link!

By: Jairus

Jairus — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 04:06:35 -0800

Awesome.

By: casarkos

casarkos — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 08:19:04 -0800

Oh wow, Scott Kim. My middle school geometry textbook was full of his stuff.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 08:39:06 -0800

taz, I knew you loved that "Figure"! These are so much fun. I've tried several times to make one from my real name and I can't do it. There are a couple of online ambigram generators, but none are very good. I'd love to see the results if anyone else has tried one.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:57:16 -0800

Just My Type is harder than it looks! Great great linkage taz!

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:26:04 -0800

Excellent links, taz - very cool stuff indeed. Thank you!

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:43:19 -0800

Taz, my brain hurts! I can't wait to come back to this later! Thanks.

By: arha

arha — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:52:16 -0800

Awesome links, but I suck more than I like at Color Me.

By: the biscuit man

the biscuit man — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:56:56 -0800

I was able to get through Just My Type in about 10 minutes. F, I and L can be confusing. Color Me RGB is almost impossible, since monitor calibration can differ so greatly.

By: ook

ook — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:28:54 -0800

biscuit man, monitor calibration has nothing to do with it: you're comparing color swatches on the same monitor, so "more red" will still mean "more red" with any reasonable color settings. Calibration is only relevant if you're comparing colors from monitor A against monitor B, or from the monitor to a print copy. (I'm more used to thinking in HSV than RGB, though, so it still took some trial and error before I was able to get six in a row.) On the other hand, Just My Type has me completely stumped; I'm almost at the end but I'm convinced they've taken away my D and slipped me an extra M... These are fun. Great post.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:34:14 -0800

On the other hand, Just My Type has me completely stumped; I'm almost at the end but I'm convinced they've taken away my D and slipped me an extra M... I thought this same thing until I somehow lost (not misplaced - the piece disapeared) the extra M piece, and the D sapce remains blank. Nice glitch in the program.

By: the biscuit man

the biscuit man — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:37:30 -0800

The problem I had with Color Me RGB, was that several looked almost the same leaving me unable to make a definite distinction between the two.