Alan Garcia adg29

img2boxshadow.rb

a ruby script to convert images to CSS (box-shadows)

Installation

gem install rmagick    # you'll need ImageMagick & Ruby first
gem install colormath
gem install micro-optparse

Another take on the SVG + Canvas Plot, but this time includes a third group of nodes: divs. Black nodes are drawn with HTML5 Canvas, blue nodes in SVG, and red nodes as divs. Zoomable and pannable.

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

This is a six part series, taking you through stages of designing and creating reusable visualizations with d3.js

All visualizations have the same functionality, showcase the individual points with a bar chart and sum up the selected bars.

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	<content><![CDATA[console.log($1);$0]]></content>
	<tabTrigger>conl</tabTrigger>
	<scope>text.html,source.js</scope>
	<description>console.log()</description>
	</snippet>

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	# Copyright Jehiah Czebotar 2013
	# http://jehiah.cz/

	import tornado.options
	import glob
	import os
	import sqlite3
	import logging
	import datetime
	import csv

	gifify() {
	if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
	if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then
	ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png
	time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png GIF:- \| gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif
	rm out-static*.png
	else
	ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - \| gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif
	fi
	else

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	Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
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	means.

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	software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit

	license: gpl-3.0
	redirect: https://observablehq.com/@d3/non-contiguous-cartogram

	license: gpl-3.0
	redirect: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/world-tour