Comments on: Weekend miscellany http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/29/weekend-miscellany-22/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jared http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/29/weekend-miscellany-22/comment-page-1/#comment-32111 Jared Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:32:07 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=4345#comment-32111 The developer "town" with little sheds reminded me of the animation department at Pixar where the animators realized that sheds at Home Depot are actually cheaper than the cubicles Pixar uses, in addition to being much more customizable: http://izismile.com/img/img2/20091211/pixar_studio_40.jpg (courtesy of this larger set of images: http://izismile.com/2009/12/11/inside_pixar_studio_45_pics.html ) The animation department at Pixar is what you get when you put several dozen creative, bright grown up kids in one large space and give them ample (physical) resources and then drown them in creative challenges (i.e. animating one blockbuster after another). They relieve stress by decorating! Cheers, Jared. The developer “town” with little sheds reminded me of the animation department at Pixar where the animators realized that sheds at Home Depot are actually cheaper than the cubicles Pixar uses, in addition to being much more customizable:

http://izismile.com/img/img2/20091211/pixar_studio_40.jpg

(courtesy of this larger set of images: http://izismile.com/2009/12/11/inside_pixar_studio_45_pics.html
)

The animation department at Pixar is what you get when you put several dozen creative, bright grown up kids in one large space and give them ample (physical) resources and then drown them in creative challenges (i.e. animating one blockbuster after another). They relieve stress by decorating!

Cheers,
Jared.

]]> By: Alfredo Correa http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/29/weekend-miscellany-22/comment-page-1/#comment-31864 Alfredo Correa Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:32:33 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=4345#comment-31864 Hi, I leave you a couple of articles I have published on "liquid diamond". http://www.pnas.org/content/103/5/1204.abstract (free access) and http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v79/i6/e064106 (Figure 14 gave a prediction of Eggert's measurements) Regards, Alfredo Hi, I leave you a couple of articles I have published on “liquid diamond”.
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/5/1204.abstract (free access)
and
http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v79/i6/e064106
(Figure 14 gave a prediction of Eggert’s measurements)

Regards,
Alfredo

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