locsencubes

[William Overington]

 

 

The original artwork is A4 in size. In the full size version the side of each square is 50 millimetres in length.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_second_novel_chapter_050.pdf

An interesting matter that has arisen is the following.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/trapezium

https://www.lexico.com/definition/trapezoid

William

Supplementary note of Monday 9 August 2021

An error was detected in the locsencube design detailed in the PDF document, after the description of the design had been published. This was in the location of the trapeziums. So the design error of the locsencube was corrected, the description in the text of the story altered accordingly, some additional text was added too, and the new PDF document has replaced the PDF document that was published on Friday 6 August 2021.

So the description in the PDF document now available does not match the above diagrams.

William

 

 

 

 

Edited August 9, 2021 by William Overington
The discussion in this thread resulted in the design of the locsencube and the PDF document being changed

[Alfred]

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locsencubes

You might like to explain where the name comes from (and, perhaps, why the two cubes are identical save for the language codes). You might also like to review the arrangement of the tabs for joining the sides: there are currently too few at the top and too many at the bottom.

[Alfred]

28 minutes ago, Alfred said:

You might also like to review the arrangement of the tabs for joining the sides: there are currently too few at the top and too many at the bottom.

Here’s one possible configuration:

 

Cube-template.afdesign

[William Overington]

The name of the thread is the plural of locsencube.

Well, the two locsencubes are identical apart from the language codes.

The first one I made up as in the story chapter, then I thought that an improvement would be to add the language codes on the top.

I coined the word locsencube as loc from localizable, sen from sentence(s), cube from the shape.

Regarding reviewing the arrangement of the tabs, well I suppose that a tab above square 2 and a tab above square 4 could be an improvement, though not above square 1 as a tab above square 1 would get in the way of the tab above square 6 being used to close the box. Why do you consider that there are too many tabs at the bottom please?

So I could change the story, or maybe add a bit in a later chapter where the design gets refined with the extra tabs and the language codes. Due to the part about using two locsencubes that have the same language-independent glyph, perhaps the glyph needs to be on the top as well.

Possibly a code number on the top too. Maybe a QR code with the code number in it on the base.

Here are links to a couple of documents with code numbers and glyphs.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/A_List_of_Code_Numbers_and_English_Localizations_for_use_in_Research_on_Communication_through_the_Language_Barrier_using_encoded_Localizable_Sentences.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse027.pdf

Here is the font with the glyphs.

https://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/LOCSE977.TTF

William

 

[William Overington]

The above is a reply to your first post. I have only seen your second post afterwards.

I think that I should not have had a tab under square 4, as it would lead to a tab on the outside that would look wrong.

Oops!

I think that I may need to change Chapter 50 a little to fix that, so I might as well add the two tabs at the top as well when doing that.

William

 

[William Overington]

Here is the latest version.

William

 

[William Overington]

Here is a version with the code number for the localizable sentence added.

William

 

 

 

 

 

[William Overington]

Here is a version with a QR code for the code number for the localizable sentence added.

Could someone possibly test it please? In fairness, I doubled the size of the locsen123.png file that contains the image of the Qr code in the A4 original, yet these online pictures are about one fifth of the size of the original, the original being A4 at 300 dots per inch, so the png was originally to be 3508 pixels by 2481 pixels and I downsized it to 700 pixels by 495 pixels.

 

An extremely useful feature of Affinity Designer in producing this artwork is the ability to set the point of an image to which the numerical values in the Transform table relate. I have used upper left, upper middle, lower left, lower middle, and for the QR code, centre.

QR code image courtesy of https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/

William

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alfred]

5 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Here is a version with a QR code for the code number for the localizable sentence added.

Could someone possibly test it please?

That works fine, William. (I’m a little surprised that you were unable to test it yourself!)

[William Overington]

14 minutes ago, Alfred said:

That works fine, William. (I’m a little surprised that you were unable to test it yourself!)

Thank you.

As far as I am aware I have not got the facility to do so.

Though perhaps there is some way that I could given the facilities here.

I have not got in-home computer printing facilities either.

Yet it seems that I can order prints online, on 350 grammes per square metre card too, and have them delivered by Royal Mail or courier. However, there is a relatively small minumum charge and I can get around 20 sheets for the same price as for 1, so I am thinking of making several prints and sending them all off together. Apparently one can build a job up with several PDF files as long as they are all the same size format and have the same type of paper or card use.

I could get a printer but for the quantities of print I need it is more convenient, less expensive and higher quality print and better choice of paper than I could get using a home printer as they have much better printing equipment.

In addition they will mail things out to up to five different addresses in chosen quantities, so one could get a book printed and comply with the law regarding Legal Deposit without leaving home.

https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-deposit-your-print-publications

So some to the author, one to The British Library, five to the agent for the other five Legal Deposit libraries, and I suppose the rest could go to booksellers or wherever one chooses.

William

 

[Wosven]

2 minutes ago, William Overington said:

As far as I am aware I have not got the facility to do so.

Though perhaps there is some way that I could given the facilities here.

Hello William,

You just need a smartphone (or someone else's smartphone) to scan the QRcode while it's displayed on another screen.

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, Wosven said:

Hello William,

You just need a smartphone (or someone else's smartphone) to scan the QRcode while it's displayed on another screen.

There are also websites that invite you to upload an image file containing the QR code.

Here’s one of many: https://qreader.online

[William Overington]

10 minutes ago, Alfred said:

There are also websites that invite you to upload an image file containing the QR code.

Here’s one of many: https://qreader.online

Wow! I just tried that and put the whole of the locsencube006.png file into it, and it worked, even with all the other stuff in the file there!

William

 

[William Overington]

2 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Wow! I just tried that and put the whole of the locsencube006.png file into it, and it worked, even with all the other stuff in the file there!

William

 

And just for completeness, I downloaded a copy of the file recovered from the post earlier in this thread and the facility decoded that too.

William

 

[William Overington]

A supplementary note has been added to the first post in this thread.

Here is a transcript of that note.

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An error was detected in the locsencube design detailed in the PDF document, after the description of the design had been published. This was in the location of the trapeziums. So the design error of the locsencube was corrected, the description in the text of the story altered accordingly, some additional text was added too, and the new PDF document has replaced the PDF document that was published on Friday 6 August 2021.

So the description in the PDF document now available does not match the above diagrams.

William

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I gave some thought as to how to resolve the issue. I wondered whether to keep the original version available and have a version 2 as a separate PDF document.

However, as the error was just in the placement of the trapeziums and did not affect the concept or the story, I decided to replace the original document, yet include a note recording what had happened in the narrative while I am writing the story.

The narrative is available here.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse_novel2.htm

The first novel, with the author notes, is available here.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm

The narrative notes produced as the first novel was being written are linked from that web page.

William

 

 

[William Overington]

A locsencube is mentioned in Chapter 61.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_second_novel_chapter_061.pdf

William

 

[William Overington]

An attempt to produce a greetings card showing two 3D views of a locsencube starts at the third post of page 9 of the Artwork for Greetings Cards thread.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/page/9/

William

 

[Alfred]

49 minutes ago, William Overington said:

the third post of page 9

Go to the post in question and click on the ellipsis in the top right-hand corner to display a popup menu. Choose ‘Share’ from that menu, select and copy the URL shown in the box in the ‘Share this post’ dialog that appears, and then paste the copied URL in your forum post to yield an embedded link like this:

 

[AdamStanislav]

4 hours ago, Alfred said:

Choose ‘Share’ from that menu, select and copy the URL

Like this?

Cool!