Now that you mention them …
All that work in identifying names in Photo-Era is paying off. I have started looking at some of the aspects of how people, but especially women, are mentioned in Photo-Era.
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Name that name
[Updated 2023-02-17 with chart]
Finding names automatically in texts is hard! (This is a more technical post.)
Continue reading “Name that name”A new era for an old Era
I have been working on a variety of tools to explore the contents of the monthly magazine Photo-Era, which was published from 1898 to 1932. I have just made one of those tools freely available: a way to search the text of all of the issues: Photo-Era Search.
Continue reading “A new era for an old Era”More colors for EDJA
I’ve updated my EDJA program for De Jong Attractors to allow the use of more colors in an image. Following the photography analogy, it’s like having new film. Here are some examples.
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More of my favorite De Jong Attractors, made with EDJA.
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Some of my favorite De Jong Attractors, made with EDJA.
Continue reading “EDJA Gallery 1”Along the EDJA
In comparing De Jong attractors with nature photography, I described the parameters as “locations”. Now if we have locations, we can imagine going for a “walk” around those locations. So, since videos are all the rage theses days, here are a couple animations of walks along a couple locations of De Jong attractors, using my EDJA site.
Continue reading “Along the EDJA”Imaging parallels
All images © 2022 Chris Culy.
While working on a mathematical art project recently, I was struck by how many similarities there are between mathematical art and nature photography.
Continue reading “Imaging parallels”Gender association of names and nouns in English
Back when I was starting to study linguistics (in the 1980s), the syntax professors (Ivan Sag and Tom Wasow) made a point of using gender neutral names in their examples, names that can be used for both males and females, like Chris (Chris Evert and Chris Columbus), rather than John and Mary, which had typically been used in examples. The other day I was curious to see if we can get an idea of to what extent a name or a noun is used for females and males using Google Ngrams. We can, and here’s what I did.
Continue reading “Gender association of names and nouns in English”S + 7 in 1
All-in for DIY textual oddities …
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