The Elements
A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
by Theodore W. Gray · first published 2009
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…I wish would be more acknowledged and investigated: >How can the electronic representation of books be made more rich and featureful? Some notable examples: - https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm... - https://www.motionmountain.net/ - The Elements by Theodore Gray https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/... - the "Living Books" series: https://wanderfulstorybooks.com/…
on “A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook” ↗…https://en.softonic.com/articles/bill-gates-bought-a-da-vinc... I really wish that there were more examples of that sort of thing. Other books which push the boundaries on technological presentation: - https://www.motionmountain.net/ - _The Elements by Theodore Gray_ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/... One might argue that _Myst_, or at least its predecessor _The Manhole_ (billed as "Where Alice would have gone if Alice…
on “Byrne's Euclid” ↗Very cool! Does anyone have a list of other similar texts? There's: - Geometry: Joyce's Java version of Euclid's _Elements_: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm... - Physics: https://www.motionmountain.net/ - Chemistry: The Elements by Theodore Gray https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...…
on “Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)” ↗…it seems to me that a lot of the effort into nice typography/appearance is going into the "coffee table" sort of books which these days are stand-alone apps such as: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/... and it seems to me that there is a lot of potential for such documents which is as-of-yet only poorly explored --- some examples which seem to be reaching towards this: - Bembo's…
on “Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more” ↗That's a divide which I've been curious about for a while --- what texts are suited for an app/interactive version? One which I usually bring up is: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm... but contrast that with: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1579128149
on “Picolibrary: A Small Press” ↗…remembering wrong. The closest article I can find is from Theodore Gray [0]. It talks about old phonograph needles made from osmium, which is very toxic in dust form. [0] https://theodoregray.com/periodictable/Elements/076/index.s1...
on “Neutron Radiography” ↗Thank you! That was driving me crazy. And now I see why I got confused: it's another phonograph-related dangerous-element fact that I learned from reading Theodore Gray's book, The Elements [0] [1]. Now if I could only remember why I thought neutron beams were involved... [0] https://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/084/index.s7... [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011IZNWZU
on “Neutron Radiography” ↗