Iris - is "the goddess of the rainbow, the messenger of the Olympian gods. (It also just so happens that she's a big feature of the _Illuminatus! Trilogy_ worth the read if you're into science fiction.) Okay - can someone chime in on the 24 across cluing/answer - because it seems like there is an error:Įris - is the goddess of discord - and is the source of the legend given in the cluing. Once I HASHED out ORISON, the rest of the puzzle (i.e. I like them quite a bit, but don't think of them as crossword-famous, whatever that means. The one really surprising thing in the grid was the clue on LCD (54A: Rock's _ Soundsystem). Thought there might be ALGAE on the slide instead of an AMEBA (26D: Slide presentation?), and needed 8/9 of POLE DANCE to bring it down (that first ninth was the issue) ( 38A: Provocative performance). Where I pulled SWARD from I don't know, but I pulled it ( 13D: Grassy surface). After that corner was done-whoosh, off I went. DENIS (that last one was just stupid-"Paris" is in the dang clue) ( 3D: First bishop of Paris). BEAT for BASS (1A: Prominent feature of dubstep music), SEEMED for SEEN AS (4D: Perceived to be), ERIS for IRIS (24A: Goddess who caused the Trojan women to riot in the "Aeneid"), ST. I thought that big, open center was going to cause trouble, but that turned out being the easiest part of all. The grid really is nicely done, if far far too easy to move through. After yesterday's lively, current, playful cluing, today's seems quite plain. Maybe the cluing was just too straightforward. OK, just blogging now-this grid looks great, but somehow was not that exciting to solve. See, trying to blog and watch at the same time means I keep missing things. Nick just finished accidentally making out with a lovely woman *not* named NORA. Seems like people partied way harder in 1936.
Unexpected! This movie takes place on New Year's Eve.
And here I thought ASTA got all the crossword action.
I had the delightfully bizarre experience of hitting the clue 45D: Gumshoe Charles ( NORA) just as said gumshoe was lighting up my TV screen. I somehow still managed to crush this puzzle, and b. Multi-tasking generally means doing many things suboptimally, but a. In between, each small square works through the range of red and green values while the intensity of blue increases from square to square.I'm trying to solve and blog and watch "After the Thin Man" (1936) on TCM, all at the same time. The top left pixel is black – all colours set to zero – and the bottom right is white – all colours set to the maximum.
In the image above, the pixels methodically step through the gamut of RGB colours. (This is known as an RGB scheme for describing colours, often as distinct from the CMYK scheme – for cyan, magenta, yellow and black – that is used in printing.) Inside the computer, a colour is represented by three numbers, representing the intensities of each of the red, green and blue lights on a scale from 0 to 256. The display sets the apparent colour of a pixel by adjusting the intensities of those three lights – they are so small and close together that your eyes mix the three back into a single colour in your vision.
The image above, when viewed at full size, contains one million pixels (a thousand by a thousand) and each one is a slightly different colour.Įach pixel in the display of your computer or phone contains three tiny lights: one red, one blue and one green.