this post<\/a>, but using crescent\/lune slices instead and with no sustain (aka, if there’s no data point, we don’t draw anything). It self-normalizes so that the maximum value range takes up a full 180 degrees. It does not bother to account for the loss of area when apportioning the slices, though it could. I doubt that would make up for the perceptual issues anyway.<\/p>\n![\"older](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/frinkiac-shoutbox-linestack-tally_link-1.png\" "\\"older")
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The good news is that the visualization motivated me to properly abstract the previously inane special-cased implementations for rings\/curves to a path-based implementation like reasonable people would expect. (Refactoring still to be done.)<\/p>\n
In other news, I’ve changed up the revision control for my chronicle-recorder patches after it became clear my stacked git approach was not going to cleanly allow concurrent development on my new laptop. The new way is a bunch of bzr branches; the ‘rev control’ page link on the left is the authority on what is what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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