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akzy wrote: ↑20:14 Mon 09 Sep 2019I feel all the years of torment have had a terrible effect on me.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑17:55 Mon 09 Sep 2019 Where is this balance point? At a distance d past Offley, measured in radii, in Mathematica notation

Solve[{D[20/(d + 2)^2 - 2/d^2, d] == 0 && d > 0}, d]

That’s the real root of 9 d³ − 6 d² − 12 d − 8 = 0   ⇒   d ≈ 1.73, which is in happy optical agreement with the output.

Having a quick look at this, I notice that d~1.73~sqrt(3). Do you have any insight as to why this is the case?

jdaw1 wrote: ↑22:09 Mon 09 Sep 2019Coincidence: d = (1 + 10^⅓ + 10^⅔) × 2/9;

jdaw1 wrote: ↑10:48 Wed 11 Sep 2019 What’s the smallest value of DropletsOuterWidthStart such that the droplets don’t appear to be sperm cells?

DaveRL wrote: ↑16:54 Wed 11 Sep 2019To me the original don't look like sperm, which have a bulbous head and long wiggly tail. I prefer the original

PhilW wrote: ↑09:17 Thu 12 Sep 2019Which can be simplified to d = 2/(10^⅓ - 1)

PhilW wrote: ↑09:33 Thu 12 Sep 2019An observation; you have chosen to replace the arrow-headed lines with small linear shapes all heading towards one or more large circles. The impression may not only be a consequence of your linear shapes. However, presumably if we can replace the arrow-headed lines with sperm-like shapes, then we could potentially use many alternatives which might generate different interpretations - ants spring to mind as an example.

DRT wrote: ↑10:28 Thu 12 Sep 2019 ^† I believe it to be a scientific fact that all men above the age of 15 have this part of their brain.

DaveRL wrote: ↑16:36 Thu 12 Sep 2019True. My wife sighs, while my sons and I giggle. I'm a bad influence, apparently.

akzy wrote: ↑11:23 Tue 10 Sep 2019Just a thought on a small modifier you could make to this package. Consider a dipole charge structure, (i.e. a closely spaced +ve and -ve charge, perhaps hidden in some text?) and you'd have magnetic dipole field lines!

jdaw1 wrote: ↑10:02 Wed 18 Sep 2019 Sorry, forgot to report. The structure of DropletsCharges has been changed to overload the position specification. As before it can be an integer, a WithinPage glass number; now also allowed is an array of the form [x y], in which [0 0] is bottom-left of the page. Which allows positive and negative charges to be very close: example, with four charges arranged as two dipoles at 90° to each other, the charges within each dipole being apart by 12pt = ⅙″ = 4.2⅓mm. (Separately, note the file size is 437kb, which drops to 106kb with /Droplets false def.)

akzy wrote: ↑10:33 Wed 18 Sep 2019The dipole example looks really sharp. Looking forward to seeing it in some placemats.

/Droplets true def
/DropletsCharges [  % Length a multiple of 3: SheetNum or /All; position being either, type integer, the centre of the WithinPage circle, or array [x y]; charge being numeric; perhaps repeat.
	/All  {[MgnL 0.75 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.25 mul add 6 sub  PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div      ]}  -1
	/All  {[MgnL 0.75 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.25 mul add 6 add  PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div      ]}   1
	/All  {[MgnL 0.25 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.75 mul add        PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div 6 sub]}  -1
	/All  {[MgnL 0.25 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.75 mul add        PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div 6 add]}   1
] def  % DropletsCharges

jdaw1 wrote: ↑14:08 Tue 12 Nov 2019The decanter labels are spread over the decanter-label page, usually A4, to be as tightly packed as possible subject to a minimum size (DecanterLabelsMaxSmallerDimension×DecanterLabelsMaxLargerDimension).

jdaw1 wrote: ↑14:08 Tue 12 Nov 2019 A request has come from AHB, which I paraphrase here. He was guillotining a page of decanter labels, and wanted thin grey lines between them to guide his chopping.

I have two sources of reluctance, on which comment is invited.

<snip ...>

Please comment.

AHB wrote: ↑14:44 Fri 15 Nov 2019the broken lines around each label are more complex than I had in mind

AHB wrote: ↑14:44 Fri 15 Nov 2019Is there a reason for the decanter label cutting lines to be different colours and some being bold while others are not?

AHB wrote: ↑14:44 Fri 15 Nov 2019I don't think these short lines add anything so I suggest they are removed.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑12:15 Wed 18 Sep 2019 /DropletsCharges [ % Length a multiple of 3: SheetNum or /All; position being either, type integer, the centre of the WithinPage circle, or array [x y]; charge being numeric; perhaps repeat.
/All {[MgnL 0.75 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.25 mul add 6 sub PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div ]} -1
/All {[MgnL 0.75 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.25 mul add 6 add PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div ]} 1
/All {[MgnL 0.25 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.75 mul add PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div 6 sub]} -1
/All {[MgnL 0.25 mul PageWidth MgnR sub 0.75 mul add PageHeight MgnB MgnT sub add 2 div 6 add]} 1
] def % DropletsCharges[/code]

The array DropletsCharges is of a length that is a multiple of three, as follows. 0 An integer SheetNum for this charge, or /All meaning all sheets. 1 A location: this can be an integer, the centre of the WithinPage circle on that sheet; or a length array of length two, [x y] in which [0 0] is bottom-left of the page. 2 A numeric charge.

In PostScript sizes, distances, lengths, widths (and, approximately, font sizes) are denominated in points, where 72 pt = 1″ = 1 inch = 25.4 mm, and hence 1 pt = 1⁄72″ = 0.01388″ = 127⁄360 mm = 0.35277 mm, and 1 mm = 360⁄127 pt ≈ 2.83 pt. Even areas are in square points, there being 72×72=5,184 to the inch², and just over 8 to the mm².

GlassPositions, a triple-depth array holding the positions of the glasses. GlassPositions SheetNum get WithinPage get is an array, [x y], where x and y are the position of the centre of the glass placement.

akzy wrote: ↑18:38 Wed 20 Nov 2019MgnL/R/T/B