On thursday I cycled out to Ninewell, one of the small nature reserves round Cambridge. It's a tiny wood with a sluggish shallow stream leaking out of a number of chalk wells, supposedly feeding Hobson's Conduit.
It's very strange to cycle up to a layby and get out. Normally I'm either going somewhere, and cycle up to the door, or going for a walk in the country, and go in a car/train.
It's pretty. Walking around nature always gets the creative juices going -- I updated the beetles in my flash game (not online yet) making them face diagonally, which makes them feel considerably more aggressive whilst being about as easy to squish -- and enables a few more levels.
Just the other side of the wood is a national cycle route alongside the railway which I incporporated in my route back. Along the centre were coloured footlong stripes, stretching into the distance, which I wondered about, thinking it was a cycle route thing.
Do you know? See http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/projects/cambridge/shelford_addenbrookes_cycle_path.htm -- it's a commemorative depiction of a section of genome, with four colours for G, C, T, and A.
When I was walking along I wondered if I could tell which direction the pattern went. Not really, and of course, it does have one, but I probably could never have told by examining it. But if you had two (or more) colours of stripes you could use but nothing else, could you indicate a prefered direction?
Using a rainbow pattern is cheating. You can't use a 1,2 pattern because that's symmetric. You could have w,b,ww,bb, but only if you know white comes first :) wbwwbbwwwbbb or rbbgggrbbggg work. But are you sure you'd *which* way it was telling you to go? Is there a better suggestion?
It's very strange to cycle up to a layby and get out. Normally I'm either going somewhere, and cycle up to the door, or going for a walk in the country, and go in a car/train.
It's pretty. Walking around nature always gets the creative juices going -- I updated the beetles in my flash game (not online yet) making them face diagonally, which makes them feel considerably more aggressive whilst being about as easy to squish -- and enables a few more levels.
Just the other side of the wood is a national cycle route alongside the railway which I incporporated in my route back. Along the centre were coloured footlong stripes, stretching into the distance, which I wondered about, thinking it was a cycle route thing.
Do you know? See http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/projects/cambridge/shelford_addenbrookes_cycle_path.htm -- it's a commemorative depiction of a section of genome, with four colours for G, C, T, and A.
When I was walking along I wondered if I could tell which direction the pattern went. Not really, and of course, it does have one, but I probably could never have told by examining it. But if you had two (or more) colours of stripes you could use but nothing else, could you indicate a prefered direction?
Using a rainbow pattern is cheating. You can't use a 1,2 pattern because that's symmetric. You could have w,b,ww,bb, but only if you know white comes first :) wbwwbbwwwbbb or rbbgggrbbggg work. But are you sure you'd *which* way it was telling you to go? Is there a better suggestion?