Skeleton Alphabet 5

It's been a year and a half since my last post concerning Ann Camp's skeleton alphabet. But with a bit more time on my hands over the holidays, I thought I'd revisit it and add an interactive twist:

http://www.chilliant.com/skeleton5.html

Again, there's no kerning and it's only been tested with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

Venn Diagram T-Shirt

A: Data that can be represented by Venn Diagrams.
B: Data containing groups with interesting intersections.

Coat of Arms 2

A coat of arms for the 21st century (but a 20th century palette):

You can test it at ZXing.org.

New Old Front Page

After many, many years, I've taken down my ancient Flash front page for the chilliant.com website, and replaced it with something even older:

For authenticity, I reverse-engineered the Teletext font from the Mullard SAA5050 datasheet:

Morphing Clock

Whilst working on the morphing animations of my Tube demo, I kept stumbling across references to the JS1K competition. As its name suggests, this is all about getting as much as possible out of only 1024 bytes of JavaScript. By comparison, the dataset required for Tube is enormous, but I experimented with something more tractable: Clock

And I've still got seven bytes spare...

Tube Map Evolution

It's eighty years since the release of Harry Beck's iconic London Underground Map. To celebrate, I've crafted a smoothly-morphing evolution of the map from 1933 to present day using HTML5 canvases and JavaScript.

If you don't have access to HTML5, I've rendered out a (slightly less impressive) animated GIF.

Original maps copyright © Transport for London. Reproduced with kind permission. Thanks Saskia!

England Expects T-Shirt

"England¹ expects that every man² will do his³ duty^4"

1. And Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland
2. Or woman
3. Or her
4. Providing it does not contravene the Human Rights Act, 1998