how #Steve-Sasson built the first handheld digital camera at Kodak in 01975
list of IEEE milestones in electrical engineering on the Engineering and Technology #History Wiki
PetaPixel’s dishonest article about how Steve Sasson “invented the digital camera”, five years after one was already in orbit
#history of #Landsat 1 to 3, explaining that the MSS was digital
“Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Level-1, collected at 80-meter, multispectral data from Landsats 1 - 5. Data was processed to 60-meter pixel size. (1972-2013).
NOTE: Landsat Collection 1 data and products are no longer available to download from the USGS as of December 30, 2022. Landsat Collection 2 remains available. Please access the Landsat Collection 2 webpage below for information about Collection 2 data and science products.”
#PDF of Frank Gray’s 01953 #patent, filed 01947, for Gray code and digital video. #history
very nice plots of Thor Labs’s mirrors’ reflectivity/absorbance/#emissivity over visible and infrared wavelengths. #optics
#Unifont plane 0 as a single 4128×4160 BMP image, 256×256 characters, 0.8 megabytes because it’s 1bpp. #fonts
The GitHub README allegory, as #fiction about a very peculiar party.
#Unicode private use area unofficial unofficial assignments by Rebecca G. Bettencourt, the “under-ConScript Unicode Registry”
#Unicode private use area unofficial assignments by Michael Everson and John Cowan, the “ConScript Unicode Registry”
#PDF scan of The Strategic Review from Winter 01975 (is this where the TSR publishers of D&D came from? “TSR Hobbies, Inc.”? It’s signed by “Gary Gygax”, no “E.”, but he’s listed as the editor with the “E.”) about Tsólyani names in the Engsványali script from the Empire of the Petal Throne universe by M. A. R. Barker. He explains that Tsolyanu grew from his childhood fantasy games with friends. He was born in 01929, so that would have been in the 01930s. This article, “Tsolyáni names without tears”, describes how to generate Tsolyáni names with dice, and includes a glyph chart for Engsvanyáli.
SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor, monitoring the uptime of Z-Library, Anna’s Archive, Libgen, Libgen+, LiberG, MotW, etc.
Mangled copy of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Scroogled” about #human-rights and #privacy in the #Google era.
