![]() ![]() These links, I thought, would give to those interested access to some of what would have been included in my commentary, while Professor Bird's forthcoming commentary would doubtless fill any remaining void. My recent association with the electronic encyclopedia De Imperatoribus Romanis has sent me back to the Epitome in the belief that it might be worthwhile to make my translation, equipped with suitable links to De Imperatoribus Romanis, available in electronic from. In light of this, I was happy to learn of Harry Bird's plan to do a translation of and commentary on the Epitome for the series Translated Texts for Historians, in which his volumes on Eutropius and Aurelius Victor have already appeared.] Ennis' graduation forced a suspension of work on both translation and commentary, and these factors, plus commitments to other research projects and administrative duties, made it impossible to devote any extended period of time to the Epitome. But resumption of teaching duties and Ms. Some twenty years ago, in the course of research on Eunapius of Sardis, two studies of Timothy Barnes drew me to the Epitome de Caesaribus ] My belief that there then existed no published translation in any modern language convinced me that, should the opportunity arise, the production of such a translation, together with a commentary, would be a worthwhile project.] A 1988 summer research grant from Canisius College allowed me to complete a rough version based on the Teubner text of Franz Pichlmayr and Roland Gruendel.] Kristin Ennis, my student assistant checked my translation and supervised the collection of scholarship on the Epitome that was to figure in the projected commentary.
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The materials that I choose and on which I work are materials with which I establish affective, loving relationships. ![]() I would say that my practice is about putting objects or materials to the test by teasing out their emotional charge. It’s about the actions that make it possible to engage with an object materially and to project oneself mentally into a form. Simon Nicaise The actions you just mentioned remind me of Richard Serra’s Verb List (1967), which I’ve always found very interesting. Untitled, after Carl André, 2016, Ink on paper, 29 x 21 cm How important is the essence of the object from which you start and to what extent do the materials you use influence the final work? ![]() ![]() You encourage viewers to recontextualise the meaning of the objects. Your art is a constant dialogue between materialisation and dissolution, appearance and disappearance, tension and relaxation. I’m thinking of your works with cigarettes, such as Ultima Necat (2018), a sundial whose stylus consists of a cigarette, and Mobile parmi les Mobiles (2012–16), in which cigarettes are attached to a mobile consisting of thin rods connected by small magnets with roses, such as Eternal Rose (2016), where the roses have been dipped in lead, and Lionnel (2018), 32 roses dipped in wax with water, such as Cannibalisation d’une goutte d’eau (2010–16), where small snowballs are locked in a freezer with matches (Sulfide d’antimoine, 2018), copper (Sans titre, 2016), and concrete like the triptych Amours en cage (2016). You divert objects from their primary function to lend them a new meaning that is simultaneously powerful and fragile. You use many different materials (wax, bronze, plaster, ceramics, concrete, wood, terracotta) and your artistic process is quite intense: assembling, mounting, magnetising, piercing, suspending, supporting, balancing, adding and removing. The root of each artist folder on our computers begins with a backslash.Įmanuela Mazzonis Simon, when looking at your works, the first thing that comes to mind is that you work not only with materials and space, but also with time and the temporal ambiguity that surrounds objects. We want to invest in the careers of artists and support them as much as possible. Working with artists is a strong and lasting commitment for our team. For us, it represents the beginning of a story and its long-term continuity. It’s the sign that initialises most folders on your computer. Can you tell us more about the name?ĭelphine Guillaud A backslash is a typographic symbol widely used in computing as a way to separate elements of a file path, for instance under Linux and Windows. The gallery represents international artists and regularly participates in fairs in France and abroad. I would like to start by asking Delphine to introduce Backs\ash, which was founded in 2010 in Paris. I’m Emanuela Mazzonis, editor of this project. Thank you for being with us today and for participating in this cycle of interviews organised by Luxembourg Art Week and dedicated to a selection of galleries participating in the fair for the first time. Emanuela Mazzonis Good morning, Delphine Guillaud and Simon Nicaise.
![]() Nonetheless, the Smith chart remains a standard way of displaying reflection measurements on test instruments, and the paper version is occasionally used for quick problems. Like reactance paper, it allows for solving classes of problems without tedious calculations, but it has also been supplanted by the use of computers that produce exact results quicker. The Smith chart is useful for understanding transmission line dynamics and designing antenna matching networks in RF engineering. I found that a frequency range of 1 kHz to 1 GHz, and an impedance range of 100 mΩ to 1 MΩ covered the majority of typical analog circuits.Īnother well known nomogram used in electrical engineering is the Smith chart. I borrowed the color scheme used on FAA airspace charts, since they have a useful, but muted contrast. I made my own using PGF/TikZ, a graphics layer built on TeX \TeX T E X that is well suited for technical illustrations. I found working with reactance paper so helpful for quickly characterizing passive networks that I wanted to have a notepad of them, but I found only mediocre versions online. All of this can be read easily from the chart by the following the minimum of the asymptotes, the overdamped behavior and pole frequencies can easily be seen without doing any algebra. A result known as the “low- Q Q Q approximation” states the poles should be located at about Q Q Q and 1 / Q 1/Q 1/ Q times the resonant frequency, or approximately 16.7 MHz and 150 MHz. Instead of a conjugate pole pair at the resonant frequency, the poles separate into a pair of real poles. When circuit elements are connected in parallel, the impedances combine as the inverse of reciprocal sums: Z = 1 1 / Z 1 + 1 / Z 2 + ⋯ = Z 1 ∣ ∣ Z 2 ∣ ∣ ⋯ Z = \frac Q ≈ 3 1 < 2 1 , so the circuit is said to be overdamped and it will not oscillate at all. It’s also easy to see how things change if we vary the values of the components. All of this can be read from the chart without doing calculations. The ratio of the characteristic impedance and series resistance means the Q Q Q of this circuit is about 3. The impedances cancel each other at this point, which would show as a sharp notch on the chart, except it is bounded below by the series 10 Ω resistor. Drawing the intersection of the inductance and capacitance lines shows the resonant frequency is 50 MHz, and characteristic impedance of this combination is a little over 30 Ω. For an example involving a resonant circuit, consider a series RLC circuit of a 100 pF capacitor, a 100 nH inductor, and a 10 Ω resistor. When the lines for a capacitor and inductor cross on the chart, the impedances are equal and opposite imaginary quantites, and the resulting sum is zero. While it is the case that “impedances add in series,” it’s only true when they are considered as complex numbers, so a little more care is required when looking at resonant circuits. frequency, with diagonal lines for the frequency-dependent impedance of capacitors and inductors. Reactance paper is a log-log chart of impedance vs. It permits quick, approximate characterization of passive networks. Another method is to use a circuit simulator like LTSpice, which can produce exact results very quickly, but it also often obscures how individual components contribute to features in the graph.Ī third method used by engineers before the era of digital computers was specialty graph paper called reactance paper (or impedance paper). One way is to derive a mathematical expression for the impedance or frequency response, but this becomes tedious and complicated, and it’s often no longer illuminating once more than 3 components are involved. In studying passive networks in electronics, it’s important to understand the frequency-dependent nature of components and how they interact when they are connected in series and parallel. This page serves as a reference on the use of reactance paper, and some discussion of the process behind making the charts. They are free to download and use from Pen & Paper Nomographic. In 2021, I released printable PDFs of charts. ![]() Attention to typography and graphical precision were the driving motivation for making my own charts. I wanted them as a handy complement to computer simulation tools. In 2019, I began working on designing and printing nomographic charts useful in electrical engineering. ![]()
The impetus was twitter’s #makevember and my repair of a VHF speaker grill. I started this work a few years ago and have finally got round to putting the code in Github in a form I’m happy with. Lacking the mathematical skills for the purely analytic approach of Ed Pegg, my approach is largely computational, using a variety of techniques including one- and two-variable optimisation. I’ve also developed (and it continues to grow) a library of functions and modules which operate on descriptions of tiles by their perimeter or as a polygon, and on lists and nested lists of tiles. I also chose to use OpenSCAD, not because of the CSG operations it supports (although I use these in generating the final forms) but because I find it a good (but not perfect) functional language with a responsive IDE for working with geometry. So I set about doing this from first principles, creating code which is based directly on the constaints as detailed in the Wikipedia article. However this means that the OpenSCAD code contains large amounts of mathematical ‘assembler code’ which makes no sense in itself and is removed from the constraints on the tile perimeter which define the shape. Laura’s code was based on very impressive work using Mathematica by Ed Pegg. This code is a great piece of work and generates a wide variety of forms using all 15 types. I first came across this problem when Laura Taalman posted her OpenSCAD code on Thingiverse. ![]() Research is ongoing and so far 15 distinct types of pentagon and their tiling unit have been discovered. Indeed it is, as the following example shows.Regular pentagons do not tesselate so interest has fallen on tiling with irregular pentagons. Is it possible to extend a 5.5.10 vertex figure to a full tiling using the simpler 5-rhomb and 10-rhomb shapes from Dürer? ![]() But it also includes other complex shapes such as five-pointed stars and combined decagons. Kepler's Aa tiling contains vertices with type 5.5.10 and indeed an entire 5.5.10 rose with a decagon surrounded by a ring of pentagons. It does not appear in Harmonices Mundi, where Kepler described the shape much more prosaically as a "combined decagon". Kaplan says that Kepler called his fused double decagon shapes "monsters" but does not say where the term comes from. The tiling was more complex than any of Dürer's and Kepler himself noted that the "structure is very elaborate and intricate".Ĭraig Kaplan points out in The trouble with five that several mathematicians have proved that Kepler was correct and that his Aa diagram can be continued into a tiling of the plane. His solution, which he illustrated as diagram Aa in Harmonices Mundi, involved five pointed stars and a peculiar fused double decagon shape. Like Dürer, Kepler could not resist looking beyond regular polygons to see if he could find plane tilings involving pentagons. In Harmonices Mundi he also discussed the fact that pentagons can appear in tilings of the sphere, where they form the basis of the dodecahedron. Kepler knew that pentagons could not occur in edge-to-edge plane tilings of regular polygons. Kepler also experimented with pentagon tilings. ![]() You can view Dürer's third and fourth tilings on Wikisource. It is possible that these empty spaces could be filled with rhombs but without more information it is unclear what Dürer had in mind. In his interesting article on pentagon tilings, The trouble with five, Craig Kaplan points out a variant of this third tiling with a central rose (a decagon surrounded by pentagons) that is continued by a spiral pattern of pentagons and 10-rhombs.ĭürer does not show how to complete his fourth tiling, which also has a central pentagon, but merely remarks that the "leftover areas you can then fill with whatever you like". You can view the thick tiling at the bottom right of this Wikisource page.ĭürer's third tiling contains a unique central pentagon and so cannot be periodic. The 5-rhomb and 10-rhomb play an important role in the modern theory of Penrose tilings, where they are often informally called the thick and thin rhombs. We could call this the "thick" tiling because of the thicker appearance of the 5-rhomb. The second tiling also contains pentagon and 10-rhomb prototiles but changes the tiling pattern to add gaps that can be filled by 5-rhombs. The first and simplest combines pentagon and 10-rhomb prototiles and could perhaps be called the "thin" tiling. The "thin" tiling with pentagon and 10-rhomb prototiles is the simplest of Dürer's pentagon tilings.ĭürer illustrates four pentagon tilings in the Painter's Manual. Anyone with a passive Perception score of 13 or more, or anyone taking time to search in the correct area, notices the footprints of four humanoid creatures moving from the doorway to area #5 behind the pillars and to the doorway to area #10. All the doors to this room are made of stone and are kept closed. Pillars line the east and west sides of the room-they are carved in the likenesses of early heads of the noble family (not necessarily recognizable to the PCs). This large chamber is 50 feet wide, 90 feet long, and the ceiling is 20 feet high. The stone stairs are well-worn, though they are dusty and do not appear to have been used in a very long time. The landing is at the top of a 60-foot-long staircase leading down under the ground. A ladder leads down twenty feet to a small landing. Pressing the latch causes the secret trapdoor in the floor beside the north wall to open. Surprisingly, there are no objects of value in the sarcophagus-this body was a minor member of the noble house who was placed here as a decoy.Īt the base of the sarcophagus, on the side facing north, there is a small latch hidden among the carvings. The sarcophagus contains the bones of a long-dead member of the noble household. The sarcophagus is sealed, though PCs can open it with crowbars and a couple of rounds of chiseling and hammering at the edges. The inside contains a single large sarcophagus, also carved with ornate designs. Nothing about the decorations indicates that this noble family was evil and worshipped the undead. The mausoleum rises some 15 feet above the ground and is carved with all manner of decorations and designs. The debris is a combination of broken stone and hard-packed dirt. This is not dwarven craftsmanship, however, and parts of the crypt have collapsed over time (including a sinkhole that caused part of the floor to drop just a couple of days before the PCs enter the crypt). The walls, floor, and ceiling of the crypt are stone blocks. ![]() They are extremely paranoid, and are trying to figure out what to do once their own provisions run out. They have been there only a few days, and have taken refuge in room XX. In addition, a small group of darklings managed to come through the summoning circle in room 13 from a weak spot in the Feywild.They are using the west side of the crypt as their lair, and every so often they go out hunting in the underdark by existing through their tunnel. A group of bugbears found an entrance to the crypt from the tunnels in the underdark. Complications: Parts of the crypt have collapsed, opening it up to tunnels in the earth.Someone has to go down there and put them to rest for good. Alternately, the might discover information about the long-dead noble family that indicates some members are still active (though not necessarily alive) and planning some kind of nefarious plot. Hook: Some item or information the PCs need-or perhaps just rumors of a magical item-lead the characters to decide to raid the crypt for treasure.An ornate mausoleum on the surface leads, through a hidden passage, to the tunnels and rooms of the crypt underneath. Location: This dungeon was once a crypt used by an evil noble family to inter and worship their dead.This week I present to you Dungeon #3: The Crypt. I will provide very rough maps for some-but not necessarily all-of the adventures.I will try to suggest alternate creatures from the MM in case the DM does not have access to the book in which the creature appears or access to DnD Beyond. I will not include stat blocks-the DM will need, at the least, the Monster Manual. I will use any creature published by Wizards of the Coast and available on DnD Beyond.Level-appropriate treasure, rolled entirely randomly, will be included.Each dungeon will include one or two traps and/or hazards, separate from the monster encounters.Not all the encounters will necessitate a battle-the players will usually be free to choose how to deal with the monsters within the dungeon.Each dungeon will have a series of encounters with various numbers and types of creatures, plus one solo creature.The encounters in the adventure will be enough to provide a single level’s worth of experience points. ![]() I don’t intend any of these to be event-based. These adventures will most likely be a series of small dungeon environments.In writing these adventures, I will keep the following design guidelines in mind: Note that is an experiment-I have no idea if I will continue through all twenty levels or not, though I will make a serious attempt to complete this project. This series contains short, single-level adventures that people can grab when they don’t have a lot of time and need something quick and fun to run that night. This is part of a series of posts, Dungeon-A-Week, that I started a few weeks ago. ![]() Fire Man: Getting hot yet?! Are you mad?! Burning mad yet?! Fiiiiiire!!. ![]() Time Man: You are nothing but garbage, my friend.Fire Man: Fiiiiire! Burn, burn! Burn everything!!.Fire Man: As long as my justice burns, it will fry your evil to a crisp! Fiiiiire!!.Elec Man: That light of a million watts.Fire Man: Burn, burn! My justice burns bright! Fiiiiiire!.Fire Man: Yes! That's what I like! What a great match this will be! Fiiiiiire!!.Bomb Man: Booooombs! Boom, boom! Blast everything in sight!.Fire Man: Fiiiiiire! Burn, burn! Burn everything, everything in sight!.but I'll show you that the fires of justice burn red-hot! Fire Man: You may think life's all about ice, ice baby.A good soldier always stays cool in battle. Fire Man: Fiiiiiire! Burn, baby, burn! My body's on fire! And this fever's catching!.Fire Man: What's the matter, can't take the heat? Yeehaw! Fiiiiiire!!.Guts Man: Having workers take that kind of a tone with me really burns me up!.Fire Man: Woo hoo!! The heat! My flames engulf all!! No mercy! Fiiiiire!!.Cut Man: Huh? I'm no bad guy! I'm fighting against world domination!.Fire Man: By the fire of justice, I am certain you are evil!! Fiiiiiire!!.Mega Man: Fireman?! Why are you.? I haven't done anything to you!.Fire Man: Fiiiiire! Burn! Burn! My justice burns hotly! Evil beware!.He uses this attack when his health is down by half in Normal and in Hard, he can use this at anytime.ĭialogues from Mega Man Powered Up As a boss Mega Man In Normal and Hard, Fire Man gains a new attack which he sends a wave of fire that travels slowly along the ground and disappears after reaching a wall though in Hard, after the fire wave reaches a wall, it continues travelling in the other direction and disappears after reaching the other side. In Hard difficulty, he will also jump and shoot mid-air. In New Style, Fire Man's Fire Storm projectiles also no longer ignite the ground below the player, thereby making the fight much easier compared to the original game and Old Style. In Mega Man Powered Up, Fire Man's projectiles no longer stall even in Old Style. While ignited, any snow platforms that Fire Man stands on or touches will melt away though it is possible to not melt the platforms if Fire Man quickly jumps after landing on it. He can use his Fire Storm whenever he wants, but if he runs into water or touches Water Blocks, he will lose the ability to launch waves of fire (though he will still be able to summon a fiery sphere around him) until he comes back into contact with Fire Blocks. The Rolling Cutter also does 2 damage, but is a bit harder to use.Īs a remake of the first game, Fire Man appears as a boss, but he becomes a playable character if he is defeated by Mega Man using only the Mega Buster. If that is not available, the Mega Buster is a secondary weakness that does 2 damage. In The Wily Wars, his ability to spam Fire Storm has been removed, making it more plausible to fight him from afar.įire Man's weakness is Ice Slasher, which will defeat him in 7 hits. If you instead keep close to him and just follow him, he will not attack unless he gets shot, making the fight extremely easy. Basically, if you go in spamming, he will spam back. He always runs away from the player after he finishes an attack. Upon passing Mega Man, it leaves a small ember underneath him, so the player has to jump and move. He will attack by shooting a huge Fire Storm wave, which quickly travels forward. He will only attack if he takes damage, or the player crosses a set distance. Fire Man’s movement is restricted to walking back and forth, and he will continue to do this until he is triggered to attack. Mega Man fights against Fire Man and defeats him.įire Man is one of the easiest bosses in the game, but his difficulty is wildly dependent on how much you know about his pattern. Light's other industrial robots to help him conquer the world, appearing as one of the six Stage Select Screen bosses. Video game appearances See also: Fire Man Stage Mega Manĭr. He enjoys camping in the summer, but has a particular dislike for rainy days and the cold, particularly from his weakness, the Ice Slasher. He also has both of his forearms as red arm cannons, with which he shoots his Fire Storm.Ī hot-blooded and charismatic, albeit hot-tempered individual, Fire Man sees himself as something of a hero, obsessed with fire and the ideals of justice, often referring to himself as the "Flame of Justice". His helmet resembles that of a medieval knight, as well as a torch which emits a flame it also holds a piece covering his mouth. 4.4 Wily & Right's RockBoard: That's Paradiseįire Man is a medium-height robot with blue eyes and a silver suit with red pieces of armor. ![]() To test that the flash plugin is working as it should you can visit the /software/flash/about page (thanks Grof!). Here, you can adjust, tweak and tune various settings and features of the player, including a handy button to clear local storage. Once installation is complete you will need to restart any open web-browser so that they can detect the plugin.Īlongside the plugin the command above will install a small GTK app called ‘Adobe Flash Player Preferences’. Pepper Flash plugin is built for Chromium-based browsers, i.e. Search for the adobe flash plugin in Ubuntu Software (by searching for ‘adobe flash’), or turn to the Terminal to install it a bit quicker: sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin Adobe Pepper Flash Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems. Refresh your software sources when prompted. Adobe Flash Player Download Download options: ActiveX Internet Explorer PPAPI Opera and Chrome NPAPI Firefox macOS Safari/Firefox macOS Opera/Chromium Linux Last updated: December 9, 2020.Click/check the ‘Canonical Partners’ repository.The first thing you need to do is enable the Canonical Partner Repository. The Canonical Partner repository offers some proprietary applications that are free to use but are not open-source. Install Latest Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 16.04 + Adobe Flash Player for Windows 32.0.0.465 Download Adobe Flash Player for when you need it 1/2 Adobe Flash Player is software used to view multimedia content on computers or other. Previously, Ubuntu offered a package that would (to cut a long story short) download and extract the Flash player plugin from Google Chrome and pop it in to a directory where other apps could use it. If you use an alternative browser, be it the super-swell Vivaldi, or Mozilla Firefox, you might prefer (or need to) to install the flash plugin separately. You don’t need to tick a box, add a repo, or do anything extra to get it - it’s present, ready to use, out of the box. Google Chrome for Linux comes pre-packaged with the very latest version of the Flash PPAPI (‘pepper’) plugin. Other great apps like Pepper Flash Player are BlueMaximas Flashpoint, Lightspark, Blitz3D and UniPlayer. The Most Easiest™ way to install Flash on Ubuntu is to install Google Chrome. The best alternative is Ruffle, which is both free and Open Source. If You Use Google Chrome You Already Have It gamerperson 5 years ago Works well It took a few tries to get to install but now it works. The end user license agreement is available at Adobe. You may still need to install Adobe Flash on Ubuntu.Īnd here’s how. This package will download Pepper Flash Player from Adobe website, and configure Chromium to use it. Not every website, web service or web app/game has switched to using something newer or more secure. In the years since the snub the web’s reliance on and use of Flash technologies has (thankfully) dwindled.īut that doesn’t mean we live in halcyon days. Adobe began to offer their Flash Player plugin for Linux a couple of months back, 4 years after abandoning the platform. |
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