I recently worked on a feature to allow cf-units to produce a TeX representation of a unit so that it can be quickly copy-and-pasted into a LaTeX document, or simply visualised nicely with matplotlib's LaTeX writer. It turns out that "doing it right" was quite involved, and has ultimately led …
UGRID and LFRic: Polygon mesh intersections¶I'm aiming to investigate whether it is possible to use the existing python tools to compute intersections of cells definied on the Met Office's LFRic cubesphere. A (possibly out of date but still enlightening) presentation about the LFRic datamodel can also be found here …
I'm fortunate to live near to one of the best continuous coastal walking/hiking routes in the world. The UK's South West Coast Path is a scenic, cultural and culinary delight spanning 630 miles from Minehead to Poole. It is steeped with history, and apparently was originally created by the …
Contributor license agreements are a thing. As much as I dislike the bureaucracy of them, they do provide some additional cover to the owners of an open source project, and some companies insist on having them. I find myself in such a situation in the SciTools organisation, for which I …
In part three of my XKCD font saga I generated several hundred glyphs as PPM images, and classified them with their associated character(s). In this instalment, I will convert the raster glyphs into vector form (SVG) and then generate a rudimentary font using FontForge. If you'd like to follow …
In part two of my XKCD font saga I was able to separate strokes from the XKCD handwriting dataset into many smaller images. I also handled the easier cases of merging some of the strokes back together - I particularly focused on "dotty" or "liney" type glyphs, such as i, !, % and …
In part one of XKCD font saga I gave some background on the XKCD handwriting dataset, and took an initial look at image segmentation in order to extract the individual strokes from the scanned image. In this instalment, I will apply the technique from part 1, as well as attempting …
The XKCD font (as used by matplotlib et al.) recently got an update to include lower-case characters. For some time now I have been aware of a handwriting sample produced by Randall Munroe (XKCD's creator) that I was interested in exploring. The ultimate aim is to automatically produce a font-file …
This evening I'm going to take a different approach to how I would normally blog. Rather than reporting the results of a technical investigation or highlighting a new/shiny package, I wanted to paint a realistic picture of the technical exploration process. As it happens, this particular investigation consumed a …