That is far too many rectangles. My cortisol spiked just reading the headline. Please turn it down to a more manageable number, like 3.
Or twelve. And make each a segment of a circle. And put the respective number 1-12 next to it.
Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone clarify?
It’s tongue in cheek - the original site had squares not the advertised “rectangles” - even though a square is a type of rectangle most people consider rectangles to be the non-squares.
We haven't bothered to correct the teacher, but used it as a lesson to say that even intelligent people aren't always correct about everything.
(She also had a preschool teacher that told her that blood is blue before it gets oxygen. This lesson is one that will be repeated throughout her life.)
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#43It is a good idea, but the layout hurts my eyes due to the Hermann grid illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion
It wasn't intentional! I experimented with different colors, but seems like all of them produce this illusion :/ I'll see what I can do.
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#44Two ideas: 1. How about just 48 Pomodoro-sized rectangles? 2. For those of us with a shifted sleep rhythm it would be nice to be able to set the start-of-day time.
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#45I feel like tools like this are extremely valuable to those with time blindness from ADHD, Autism, etc...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wasn't intentional! I experimented with different colors, but seems like all of them produce this illusion :/ I'll see what I can do.
Try hexagons, they’re equidistant between centers.
Personally I prefer fractals. A 6-sided hexagon is just 2* 3-sided triangles. Or 6 of them, depending how you prefer to tile the plane.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/44/99/c94499bb9a0057f8573e...
So how about a day schedule organised by Sierpinski triangles? Lots of space in the middle for resting.
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#47Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s tongue in cheek - the original site had squares not the advertised “rectangles” - even though a square is a type of rectangle most people consider rectangles to be the non-squares.
My 5-year-old knows that squares are a type of rectangle. Her kindergarten teacher corrected her when she said this during a shapes lesson and told her that rectangles always have two sides longer than the other. We haven't bothered to correct the teacher, but used it as a lesson to say that even intelligent people aren't always correct about everything. (She also had a preschool teacher that told her that blood is b…
And an important part of life is learning when to pick your battles.
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#49It would be fun to see this with local daylight hours mapped to the squares, so I could get a feel for where my consumption is at within "daylight" vs the whole "day" SunCalc is a good tool for this, if you're interested: https://github.com/mourner/suncalc (I've used it on a personal project, and the API was a little awkward but the results are good: https://daylight.website/ )
Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles
#50It would be fun to see this with local daylight hours mapped to the squares, so I could get a feel for where my consumption is at within "daylight" vs the whole "day" SunCalc is a good tool for this, if you're interested: https://github.com/mourner/suncalc (I've used it on a personal project, and the API was a little awkward but the results are good: https://daylight.website/ )