I am an occasional photographer and I became interested in how compositional techniques could help me produce better pictures. I've been using the rule of thirds, not least because my camera has an easy to use overlay for it. However, what
…I am an occasional photographer and I became interested in how compositional techniques could help me produce better pictures. I've been using the rule of thirds, not least because my camera has an easy to use overlay for it. However, what
…It all started when Carmen asked me (something like): "couldn't you play that music from Murder She Wrote at work whenever you're typing?" Given I was on a plane at the time, with nothing much else to do, why not think about it?
…TLDR: I've made a game: Playout. Please DM any feedback or feature requests!
The germ of this idea came from teams moving around at Skyscanner. Eva is an office manager there and often had to manually work out where to place teams when there was an office rearrangement. She had to take into account many preferences and constraints. Iva (a colleague) and I both thought this was something where a computer could be a helper, perhaps representing the task as a Constraint Satisfaction (CS) problem.
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