William Overington

One of four sessions each scheduled to start at 4 pm, the Affinity one the shortest one at 20 minutes. William

@albertkinng I recognize that AI will not replace the expertise of professional designers. I like to think of this situation in terms of a concept that I thought of many years ago, namely time and microtime. Consider, just as a basis for a thought experiment, even if not necessarily exactly the case, that human activity has units of 1 second, and consider that computer system activity has units of 1 microsecond, even though I know many modern computers are much faster. So the 5 seconds that we observe the AI system taking to produce a picture is five units in our ambience, yet 5 million units in the ambience of the AI system. So, what is 5 million seconds in our ambience? 5 million divided by 3600 hours 5 million divided by 3600 divided by 24 days 5 million divided by 3600 divided by 24 divided by 365.25 years What is that? I'll start the calculator program. 57.8 days. That is working continually, day and night. More related to human work is the following. 5 million divided by 3600 divided by 7.5 divided by 5 weeks. So 37 weeks of continuous 5 day week human employment. That not counting tea breaks, bank holidays and so on. So the AI picture produced in 5 seconds is roughly equivalent, for this thought experiment, to almost a year of a human painter producing a painting. Yet that does not mean that the two paintings are equally as good. A painting produced by any artist, human or AI, in the artist's time ambience, depends so much on the artist. However, what needs to be considered is that I have here some framed prints of paintings produced by an AI system, indeed paintings specified in a general sense by me in a text prompt to the AI system. I appreciate that a professional art appraisal of them might not be palatable, yet the fact of the matter is that I could not have afforded to hire the services of a professional artist to produce them. And the prints are not at "art print" print quality level. Yet I am pleased to have them and enjoy looking at them. However, a however within a however, I am not purporting the AI system to be better than, nor a replacement for, professional artists. So I regard AI produced art as interesting and enjoyable, and having a place somewhere on a spectrum of art quality. William

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This is experimental as a learning exercise. The vertical panels are each such that rotation angle plus shear angle equals zero. The height of the three inner panels adjusted "by eye" this time. I need to learn the calculation. Angles of 30 degrees, 15 degrees, and 0 degrees. William

So were they comparing it to using Canva? I have not used Canva. Is using Affinity products a "speed up" from using Canva? Do Affinity products do things that Canva does not, or just the same things but in a speeded up manner? William

Is it possible to export a png graphic such that it includes the isometric grid used when drawing the picture please? William

I have never thought of Affinity products as to "speed up". To produce quality output, yes. Yet I am retired, not running a business, so maybe "speed up" is very relevant to some users of Affinity products. William

I have found that if I draw a straight line using the Pen Tool from any point that I choose to any other point that I choose then the Transform Panel shows the length of the line in a box labelled L that is to the right of the box labelled R. That is the box that for a shape shows the shear angle, but for a line the box shows the length of the line. William

Start a document and set the measurement units to inches. If you then draw a line using the Pen Tool and hold the Shift key down while you do it, then a line drawn by you at "around" horizontal will lock on as exactly horizontal. Then, once it is an object, the length of the line will be displayed as the width in the Transform panel. You could then rotate the line without changing its length, either using the mouse pointer or by entering a number in the box labelled R in the Transform panel. Then move it to where you choose. I hope this helps. William

No, I took a mathematician's approach. William

The answer is 85 degrees, on the basis that the hour hand moves 30 degrees in an hour, so moves 5 degrees in 10 minutes. At exactly 11 o'clock. the hour hand is 30 degrees from the vertical, so at 10 minutes past 11 o'clock the hour hand is 25 degrees from the vertical. At 10 minutes past 11 o'clock the minute hand is 60 degrees from the vertical. 60 + 25 = 85 so the answer is 85 degrees. William

I have been trying to think how a video could advertise Affinity Publisher. With Affinity Designer there could be various adverts, each showing someone drawing something, different artwork in each advert, with different background music in each advert, watercolour with harpsichord music, line drawing with some ragtime, abstract with colourful filled shapes with some jazz, an oil type seascape with an instrumental version of Beautiful Dreamer. So several adverts and an occasional additional one so that people would look out for them. With Affinity Photo could there be someone out with a mobile phone, gathering a photograph, in a house loading it into a computer, adding some effect and printing it out and then placing the framed print on display on a wall in the house. Yet for Affinity Publisher? William

So here is a design puzzle, one which might bring @Alfred into the discussion as he may like this design puzzle. If one uses Affinity Designer to draw a clock face where the time is ten past eleven, what should be the angle between the two hands? William

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved/world-alzheimers-day Autumn equinox time or thereabouts. How the Clock-Drawing Test Screens for Dementia (verywellhealth.com) William

But if it were framed and on a gallery wall, what would people make of it? I am reminded of the following. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/pair-of-glasses-left-on-us-gallery-floor-mistaken-for-art William

That is an interesting concept, I had not thought of that. William

Well, chapters were published as they were written, not always in numerical order, from June 2016 to February 2019/ I got very helpful feedback from several people in the old Serif Lounge as I proceeded. Not the conventional way to write a novel - write it all first - but I may not have got it finished if I had done that. William

Yes. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_title.pdf William

Thank you. Perhaps such an advert will pop up on YouTube while I am running My Mix. William

It was sort of meant to be brown earth around the pond, lily pads in the pond, one frog jumps SPLASH. How about the following. Brown earth of a field Green lily pads in a pond A frog jumps in SPLASH! William

White-crested Tiger Heron - Wikidata William

Actually, when I saw the picture I thought of it as a picture of a white-crested tiger heron. The reason being that some years ago I made an experimental font to test an idea that was current at the time and the output was to be a picture of a white-crested tiger heron. As what I was doing was to test the way the access to the picture was coded, I just used a picture much like yours to represent the white-crested tiger heron so that if the image was displayed then I would know that the test had worked. FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment - Font Forum (high-logic.com) I had not noticed any red line and cannot find it now actually, I tend to use my computer with Night Light on permanently except when I am checking colours, and not very bright at all. William

This might help explain. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_029.pdf http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_030.pdf Both of those two PDF documents, and indeed all of the PDF documents of the novel, were produced using Serif PagePlus software. The chapter of the sequel novel where !81812345679 is introduced is still unpublished I think, but I need to check. William

No, !81812345679 is correct, as otherwise there would be three 8 characters and the idea is that it should be able to be signalled with two sets of plastic digits if plastic digits are being used. William