Thank you.

William

I already have five A3 size pictures for the art show.

Today I tried experimenting with opacity in Affinity Designer, and so I used a landscape A3 plus bleed areas electronic canvas, just in case I might want to use any result it in the art show.

This is a one-seventh both horizontally and vertically png image of what I have got so far.

The sunlight effect is produced using a full width borderless yellow filled rectangle 600 pixels high at 20% opacity and then four copies of it are placed, each with a y position 100 pixels lower down the canvas than the previous one.

Clicking on the image should produce an enlarged display.

Fitting a sphere inside a cube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8sn_xX8UZZU

Well, I saw it, thought it interesting and put the link in the hope that some readers might enjoy the surprise.

If I write up every link it can spoil the enjoyment of seeing the video without a pre-description.

I remember a television presenter saying, before an episode of Alias Smith and Jones, "And now a case of Confederate money for alias Smith and Jones" and it was only in the final five minutes of the programme that the fact the box of money for which they had searched and eventually found was full of Confederate banknotes, and thus, at the time in which the story was set, worthless.

I got to the stage of turning off the sound of the television before the start of programmes due to the way a lot of announcers would spoil enjoyment of a programme by their comments before the programme started.

I post links that I find interesting, within a general thread heading, as here.

William

I suppose that it was another way of putting the message of this song that it is better to be free to fly than to live in a golden cage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g6bQ6Jug5I

https://genius.com/Mireille-mathieu-der … hen-lyrics

https://translate.google.com/?sl=de& … =translate

Though if one is hard up, cold and hungry, maybe the metaphorical golden cage in a palace with everything being provided is a good choice.

Printing letterpress with three different colours simultaneously

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W9hSZc-JV_w

Normally, with letterpress printing, such a task would be done with three impressions, one for each colour, with just the type for the particular colour being used at the time, yet keeping the overall layout, substituting spaces for the type unused for a particular colour, so as to achieve the desired alignment.

The third post in this thread has the following text, and a PDF document.

At the time of writing of this post, the view count is 401 yet there are only 7 views of the PDF document, of which 2 are me testing that the upload worked fine.

I am wondering why there are so few views of the PDF document. I appreciate that some of the views of the thread may be from Bots, yet 5 views of the PDF document seems very low.

Are people wary of opening a PDF document from a post in a website?

I find it strange that people read the thread yet do not look at the PDF document?

Alas, nobody has written about their experience of trying to extract the A3 picture from the PDF document. Maybe nobody has tried.

William