One blinding flash of sense
Prompted by senji's question Quite Some Time Ago, I've been trying to persuade LaTeX to do some of the calculations needed on an Ars Magica character sheet. The character sheet that resulted is here. It provides handy commands for listing your Technique + Form totals and showing one-line spell summaries. These last include the amount by which your casting total (before dice) exceeds or falls short of the spell level. They take no account of the Penetration skill (because the increase varies), or the casting total increase that comes with spell mastery. I think including an optional "mastery level" argument to \SpellLine would work, but at the time I decided against it. Thoughts for improvement or extension, anyone?
I have some results, despite the best effort of my triggers to foil me. As other people are now using the gun, I've been thinking about displaying these results. I have the output of a photodiode, recorded as a continuous trace over time. I also have some still images of the cell whose light output the photodiode was tracking. I think this is a fairly good way to display them:
The images are positioned and scaled so that they cover the times for which the image was exposed. They should also all be 100 ns later, because I forgot about a delay. Thoughts on this approach?
I also intend, once I get back at the gun and have fixed my triggering issues, to take spectra of the light given off by the cell. These spectra will be taken over about 500 ns, and will bear a superficial resemblance to this (taken from the room lights, over rather more than 500 ns):
I think there's too much information to be squeezed into the space filled by the still images. I don't really have much idea how I'm going to include them in the results. I can always fall back on including them separately, with a caption indicating the time, but I feel there ought to be a better way. Again, I ask for your thoughts.
I have some results, despite the best effort of my triggers to foil me. As other people are now using the gun, I've been thinking about displaying these results. I have the output of a photodiode, recorded as a continuous trace over time. I also have some still images of the cell whose light output the photodiode was tracking. I think this is a fairly good way to display them:
The images are positioned and scaled so that they cover the times for which the image was exposed. They should also all be 100 ns later, because I forgot about a delay. Thoughts on this approach?
I also intend, once I get back at the gun and have fixed my triggering issues, to take spectra of the light given off by the cell. These spectra will be taken over about 500 ns, and will bear a superficial resemblance to this (taken from the room lights, over rather more than 500 ns):
I think there's too much information to be squeezed into the space filled by the still images. I don't really have much idea how I'm going to include them in the results. I can always fall back on including them separately, with a caption indicating the time, but I feel there ought to be a better way. Again, I ask for your thoughts.