Life In 19x19

Thanks!

It's always interesting to note the little differences in the way artisans make these items.

Another glowing board, just like Tron: Legacy

Have you tried dip pens? Using them explains many things, old calligraphy included.

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Ferran
I have used them for drawing, but not for writing -- they were really difficult to control! Certainly, being able to avoid the constant dipping into ink was worth the constraints imposed by ...

This last year I started trying to improve my handwriting, which lead to fountain pens, which lead me to a lathe at a garage sale... anyway, started making fountain pens from ebonite, from scratch, which has been quite fun. Lots to learn about materials, and threading, and how to use a lathe, and ...

On 'Billions', a Showtime series, the Brian Connerty character has a meeting of the local go club in his office after hours. [...] Upon reflection, there are several things that lead me to think that the producers are tossing in a gratuitous go game just to advance public knowledge of go ...

6. What else you got?

I'll be very interested to see augmented reality glasses/headgear used for playing games. Or reviewing, for that matter. Layering remote or AI data over a real board could be very useful.

EdLee wrote:Shinya Shokudou 深夜 食堂, S3E7 (ep. 27) しじみ汁

I have to protest -- that character fell asleep watching a pro game! When has that ever happened in real life?

It also seems that SmartGo books are available in EPUB format, which can be read in a variety of apps
https://www.gobooks.com/epub.html.

Not sure what authoring that kind of EPUB would be like, though.

The SmartGo format is open, I believe:
https://www.smartgo.com/pdf/gobookformat.pdf

I have a vague recollection of a web-based SmartGo books reader, too, but I can't find that URL at the moment.

Welcome!

That does look like a shogi board, very odd -- particularly when they seem to have had a go board asset for another part of the game:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments ... punk_2077/

Description of the first episode begins with "Chu Ying was the one of best weiqi players in ancient China..." -- so we know a few of the details have been altered

EdLee wrote:Yes, already in the screen grab.

HA! Yep, got it now

EdLee wrote:Blade Runner 2049

I've watched the trailer twice and haven't seen it -- is there a goban in the movie?

/r/baduk would be a good place!