![]() Lastly, I can import the Scapple file into Scrivener to use as reference if I want. ![]() Scapple is so much easier! I’ll never draw another W-plot in Word again! In the past I’d gone to great lengths to use MS Word to make this type of diagram and let me tell you, Word’s drawing tools are majorly time consuming to use. Scapple is perfect for making an electronic version of the W-plot/M-plot. I find the lines very useful for this! One of the things I like to do when I sit down to start a new story is draw up a W-plot chart for my main characters and an M-plot for my villain (based on the plotting method taught by author Karen Docter in her workshop “ The W-plot or…the Other White Meat for Plotters.”). I also used Scapple as a straight diagram tool. I don’t need the lines so I don’t use them, but another writer may find the lines invaluable and the color-coding not so much. Just like Scrivener, it works how you like to work. In my diagram, I added a few simple links between biographical data along the bottom as an example, but I mainly use a color coding system and bubble position to show chronological order.īut that’s the great thing about Scapple, it’s customizable. If you have related bubbles and want to show that relationship in your diagram, just drag one bubble on top of the other to create the connection (a line), and if you reposition either bubble, the line adjusts to keep the connection in place. Is that all it can do? No way! For starters, you can reposition any bubble you’ve created. ![]() Instead I could just double-click and focus on the brainstorming. I wasn’t weighed down by “process” or menus or commands. So Scapple’s input and format capabilities are simple but effective. Some were possible scenes I knew the story would contain, others were facts about related characters, and a few more were questions I needed to find answers for later on. Some of these other bubbles I colored differently, depending on how they related to the story. Eventually, I had a circle of ideas floating around my character’s name. Then, as I thought about the various bubbles I was adding, other information about the story started coming to me. I started with a name and then began thinking about the character’s life and double-clicked to add more bubbles floating around the name. You can then format the border, fill and shape of the bubble and font size/color of the text, which again sounds so simple, but it’s a powerful feature you can do a lot with.īelow is my mind-map in progress. Scapple automatically puts the text into a bubble for you. Without a clue what I was doing, I double-clicked in the middle of the Scapple screen and typed a name for one of the major characters in my story. The simplicity is what gives your imagination free reign to create. Scapple is simple, but it’s brilliant at the same time. I’d never tried mind-mapping before and when I opened the product to a blank screen, it seemed too simple.Īh, but that’s where its true beauty lies. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of the software. Scapple from Literature & Latte, not to be confused with scrapple, a meat dish I’d rather forget I’ve ever heard of, is a handy mind-mapping tool that I have found very useful for brainstorming new novels.
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![]() Q2ID converts Quark 4 through Quark 10 documents. Items that convert from QuarkXPress using the Q2ID QuarkXPress to InDesign plugin include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes, as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes, anchored boxes, and pantone colors. Q2ID works in InDesign CC, CS6, CS5.5 or CS5 on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. Markzware's Q2ID data conversion software converts the intricate details of the original QuarkXPress document and instantly re-creates the document within Adobe InDesign. What's that you say? Quark released a new version? You'll have access to the upgraded plugins which can convert the new Quark documents.Įasy License Management: Never Remember an Activation Code again! If Adobe releases a new CC version which breaks compatibility with our current CC plugin, you'll get the upgraded plugin for free. You will have access to Q2ID for InDesign CC, CS6, CS5.5 and CS5 both Macintosh and Windows platforms with a single purchase and License.Ĭurrently running Adobe InDesign CS5 but thinking of upgrading? You'll be covered when you decide to upgrade to CS6 or CC. Our Q2ID Bundle Subscription gives you access to all current Q2ID plugin versions. The Q2ID InDesign plugin gives you a big head-start on QuarkXPress to InDesign data conversion. No more re-creating documents from scratch. Here are the two finished documents for comparison (InDesign on top, Quark beneath).Īnd you're done! My opinion of Q2ID is that although the conversion isn't perfect, it does as good a job as the slower method of conversion, if not better (and it's much faster, obviously).Q2ID is an InDesign plugin to quickly convert QuarkXPress documents in Adobe InDesign. This can be time consuming, but it's still much quicker than re-creating the document from scratch. Other glitches are quickly and easily resolved by scrutinising the document and tweaking widths and styles here and there. Below shows the hyphenation switched off in the Paragraph Styles: Quark to InDesign Update the Paragraph and Character Stylesīecause the text styles were retained, the hyphenation and other tweaks could easily be fixed in the Paragraph Styles panel without having to select every block of text in the document. However, some immediately obvious differences between the documents could be found in the hyphenation rules and the flow of the text. The Master Pages were retained, as were the Guides, Color Swatches and Style Sheets (called Paragraph and Character Styles in InDesign). Below is a comparison of a detail of the page (top is the converted InDesign file, and bottom is the original Quark file). Quark to InDesign Check the document for layout and style differencesĪs Markzware states, no conversion will ever be perfect and there will always be work to do on the converted document. ![]() Never again! This progress bar does away with all that effort: If I didn't have the plugin I would have had to back-save to Quark 7, open the file in Q7 and back-save to Quark 6, open Q6 and back-save to Quark 5, open Q5 in Classic and back-save to Quark 4, and finally open the Q4 file in InDesign. My spread was imported very quickly, and although the resulting page wasn't perfect (no conversion ever will be), it was as good as any back-saving conversion I had ever carried out, and much faster. Now you're ready to import your Quark file. Quark to InDesign Open the Document in InDesign Then I was presented with the correct menu item as shown below: This was resolved by closing InDesign, downloading the latest updated plugin from the Markzware site, re-installing it (by overwriting the old version) and re-launching InDesign. When I first installed the plugin into InDesign CS4 (this was an earlier version of the plugin), the Markzware menu item showed the following strange text: Once you've installed Q2ID and launched InDesign (you'll need to enter your Activation Code when prompted) a new menu item, "Markzware", will appear at the top of the screen. Make sure you install the correct version plugin into your InDesign PLUG-INS/FILTERS folder before starting InDesign. Once everything is present and correct, we can move onto InDesign. You can do this by using the UTILITIES/USAGE. ![]() Make sure that all fonts are present and all images are correctly linked. The spread shown below was created in Quark XPress 8. This article briefly shows how the Markzware Q2ID InDesign plugin works.įirst, select your Quark document.
![]() ![]() With an education supported almost entirely by scholarships, he subsequently earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1964. He graduated high school from Cushing Academy, Massachusetts in 1960. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1955 under the Eisenhower Refugee Relief Act of 1953. In the background is a cryostat, probably a liquid argon based calorimeter in Professor Doke's laboratory.īorn in Chunking, China in 1942, Chen had an early childhood of wartime instability and insecurity. This idea led Chen to develop plans for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory that would eventually make fundamental measurements demonstrating that neutrinos were particles with mass.Ĭhen (left) and Professor Tadayoshi Doke (right) during a visit to Waseda University in Tokyo in 1986. In 1984 Chen realized that the deuterium of heavy water could be used as a detector that would distinguish the flavors of solar neutrinos. Chen's work on observations of elastic neutrino- electron scattering provided important experimental support for the electroweak theory of the standard model of particle physics. Herbert Hwa-sen Chen ( Chinese: 陈华生) (Ma– November 7, 1987) was a theoretical and experimental physicist at the University of California at Irvine known for his contributions in the field of neutrino detection. Electromagnetic simulation of time reversal violation (1968) Notice I pulled your custom code out of the smoothScroll() function. The fundamental problem was that the scrollerProxy's setter needed to ALSO set the actual scroll position of the page (not just the "fake" content scroll) so that they're synchronized, but doing so directly would create a funky loop because the main ScrollTrigger is set up to basically smooth out the "real" scroll position, thus when we set it in the scrollerProxy(), it was being softened in a sense. ![]() I updated the smoothScroll() function to sense that condition and work around it. Seems to work well, right?Īnd yes, the snapping logic already employs the technique you mentioned internally where it checks to see if the scroll position matches (or is at least very close to.because browsers are weird) the last one set by the snap tween. If not, it kills it, assuming the user (or something else) influenced the scroll.Īnyway, it feels good to have that one figured out. Hopefully the new function solves any issues you were running into. ![]() Please let me know if it works well for you.
![]() This way, it can reduce artifacts that may cause the video to appear unrealistic. Meanwhile, with Video Enhance AI, you can upscale videos to higher video qualities without occasional flickers and glimmers that plague the output from other software.Īccording to Topaz Labs, their software uses temporal information acquired from other frames to upscale the resolution and enhance the frames. Video upscaling has been a popular strategy for video enhancement, but the result isn’t always perfect. Topaz Video Enhance AI has several powerful features, and these are the most notable ones. The software can also be used by filmmakers, gamers, influencers, bloggers, animators, production companies, and broadcast professionals. It comes in handy when shooting with low-resolution cameras or when you want to restore your old footage. It’s also perfect for photographers who wish to use the tool on their videos. Topaz Video Enhance AI is ideal for content creators and video editors who need to upscale and improve their video quality. Topaz says in addition to the immediate improvement in quality, it allows them to improve existing models and create new ones. Video AI v3 has a new code base, and the new stabilization AI model considers the whole frame rate instead. The older version experiences certain quality issues enhancing variable video frame rates, repeated scenes, and scene changes because it treated videos as constant-rate images. With the rebrand to Topaz Video AI comes new AI models, filters, and added functionality on a new Photo AI-like user interface. Recently, Topaz Labs announced that its video enhancement software would receive major modifications alongside a name change. Version release and rebranding as Topaz Video AI It also saves you from uploading and downloading large video files. This means downloading the program and ensuring your computer has the basic system requirements. Unlike some of its alternatives, the app is a standalone program that works for Windows and Mac operating systems. Therefore, the Topaz Video Enhance AI can reduce and remove video flickering, sharpen blurred frame rates, and repair low-resolution video clips. ![]() In the case of Topaz Video AI, it’s been exposed to thousands of challenging video samples to help the software perform better. The developers, Topaz Labs, have a series of video editing tools that have been improved using similar file types to what they’d be working on. It can also create slow-motion video footage by adding matching frames between the actual frame rates. The software has AI models consisting of built-in algorithms that help it to achieve video upscaling, enhancement, denoising, deinterlacing, and restoration. It was developed by Topaz Labs hence, it’s called Topaz Lab Video Enhance AI, even though the recent upgrade has seen it renamed as simply Topaz Video AI. ![]() Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI is a powerful video enhancement tool that upscales and enhances resolution to improve video quality. In the human bloodstream, for example, the chief buffer that is employed is a carbonate buffer. In many aqueous solutions it is desired to provide one or more pH buffers. The result is the beverage has a lower-than-neutral pH - the beverage is a bit acid. Citric acid is the ideal way to make this happen. One of the goals if you are going to make a citrus beverage is that it needs to taste tart. And indeed that is the chief thickening agent employed in these two diet beverages. Because it is a citrus beverage, a very natural choice for a thickening agent is citrus pectin. What’s interesting here is that as we know, Mountain Dew is a citrus beverage, made mostly from orange juice. The usual choice is gum arabic and we see that this manufacturer indeed makes use of gum arabic. ![]() So to get the same “mouth feel”, other thickening agents must be employed. For any diet beverage there is the problem that if there had been ordinary sugar in the beverage, the sugar would have served as a thickening agent. All of this suggests to me that to the extent the beverages taste different from each other, it might not be due to differences in the artificial sweeteners relied upon. This does not tell us the exact concentrations or percentages, of course, but it does tell us that in both beverages, the percentage of sucralose is less than the percentage of acesulfame potassium, and in both beverages, the percentage of acesulfame potassium is less than the percentage of aspartame. As you can see the two beverages list the same three artificial sweeteners in the same ordinal sequence. We can see several things about the two ingredient lists. Inhibits growth of mold, yeast, and some bacteria So now we can turn to the two ingredient lists. With this as background to the discussion, we return to the commenter’s question about whether perhaps the reason that Mountain Dew Zero Sugar tastes different from Diet Mountain Dew might be due to the use of non-identical artificial sweeteners? I personally prefer the taste of the bottled beverage to that of the fountain beverage. This is one of the reasons why the fountain version of Diet Mountain Dew tastes quite different from the bottled version of Diet Mountain Dew. A typical fallback choice for fountain syrups is saccharine. The pH of the syrup is usually neutral and thus is a higher pH than that of the bottled beverage, and the stability of aspartame turns out to be less if the pH is higher.įor all of these reasons, the maker of the fountain syrup will usually choose not to rely upon aspartame as the chief artificial sweetener, but will instead rely more on other artificial sweeteners that have longer shelf lives. The syrup might go for quite some time, perhaps weeks, before it gets used up. The operator of the soda fountain might store the syrup at room temperature or even at higher temperatures. The maker of the fountain syrup is not able to make very many assumptions about the actions of the operator of the soda fountain. Which brings us to the fountain beverage version of Diet Mountain Dew. The experienced consumer of bottled diet soft drinks will likewise try to store the bottles at cool temperatures and not warm temperatures. This is why the experienced consumer of bottled diet soft drinks will avoid purchasing too many months in advance and will instead try to purchase the bottles “just in time” to drink them. ![]() The beverage won’t taste normal any more. If you put a bottle of Diet Mountain Dew in a warm place for a couple of months, the aspartame will break down and stop being sweet. But aspartame does not have a very long shelf life. The thing is that the bottled Diet Mountain Dew uses aspartame as one of three sweeteners. In my own life the area where I run into this most often is the Diet Mountain Dew that comes from a soda fountain on the one hand, or the Diet Mountain Dew that comes from a bottle on the other hand. ![]() He’s not wrong that if two nominally identical beverages taste different from each other, it is often due to the use of different artificial sweeteners. Read the rest of the label on both beverages – what is the artificial sweetener in Diet Mountain Dew and what else is in the Mountain Dew Zero Sugar? Those are the agents that affect the taste. A chief example for today being the ingredient lists for two beverages that I discussed the other day in this blog article, namely Diet Mountain Dew and Mountain Dew Zero Sugar. What a relief it is, when so many things that are happening around us clamor for our attention, that we can sometimes return to pleasant and diverting discussions of some of the more important things in life. ![]() Customers can additionally purchase service plan and warranty extensions from their local Toyota dealer – and they benefit from the biggest dealer network in the country (over 220 outlets). A 3-year/100 000 km warranty is also provided. Pricing for the new Toyota Starlet, which will go on sale from the 23 rd of May, is as follows:Īll Starlet models are sold with a 3-services/45 000 km service plan – with 15 000 km service intervals. The familiar three-grade strategy has been retained (Xi, Xs and Xr). The engine is paired to a 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic transmission. Choose from 122 used Toyota Starlet in Johannesburg from R 140 000 on South Africas biggest used cars site. Despite the increase in performance, Toyota claims the fuel index remains low, ranging between 5.4 and 5.7 l/100 km. This enhances performance by 9kW (for a total power output of 77kW), while the torque receives an 8Nm amplification to take it to a max of 138Nm. Powering the new Starlet is a larger and more powerful 1.5-litre engine sourced from the Urban Cruiser. The top-tier Xr model adds Smart Entry, Push Start and Cruise Control. Driver & Passenger airbags are also provided with the flagship Xr grade featuring Side & Curtain versions too. Automatic Climate Control, power-retractable mirrors and electric windows are features on the standard menu.Īll new Toyota Starlets are equipped with rear parking sensors (PDC), Hill Assist Control (HAC), Vehicle Stability Control, ABS and EBD. All models now come equipped with a touchscreen audio system (either 18 or 23cm) with USB, Bluetooth and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto interface, as well as a rear USB charger. The new Starlet also boasts an upgraded specification roster. Revised front and rear-styling up the visual ante with sleek headlamps up front, chrome detailing, a sloping rear roofline with boot spoiler (which flows seamlessly into the tailgate), and stylish two-piece rear light clusters which complete the sporty yet elegant profile.Ī revised interior design features swooping accent lines and blue detailing, a large centrally-mounted infotainment screen, an instrument binnacle and a sporty, three-spoke multi-functional steering wheel. ![]() The newcomer boasts a sporty exterior design, comprehensive specification level, a new more powerful engine and competitive pricing. Since then, the Starlet has proven to be quite popular and contributed to sales successes of Toyota South Africa. The Starlet was first introduced to the local motoring scene back in 2020, competing in the hotly-contested B-segment. California Car Cover is the World Leader in 1982 Toyota Starlet custom-fit dashboard covers & interior accessories. Toyota South Africa unveiled the latest iteration of the Starlet aka Starlet Johannson. Second-generation Toyota Starlet details and pricing unveiled By Khulekani On Wheels / on May 23rd, 2022 / in Car News, featured ![]() To create their designs, architects need to have strong technical skills. ![]() They need to be able to come up with new and innovative designs that will stand out from the rest. This is one of the most important skills for architects. The best skills to have as an architect include: Read also: List of Best Engineering Universities in the UK What are the Required Skills for an Architect?Īn architect is a professional who designs buildings and other structures. Various tools and machines are used in the construction process, which helps to build structures quickly and efficiently. Technology is also used extensively in the construction of buildings. ![]() Architects use various presentation tools such as slideshows, 3D models, and animation to present their ideas. Technology also plays an important role in communicating the ideas of architects to their clients and other stakeholders effectively. This software also enables architects to make changes in their designs quickly and easily. With the help of various computer-aided design (CAD) software, architects can create detailed drawings and 3D models of their designs. Technology helps architects to create innovative and unique designs for their projects. Some of the most important roles of technology in architecture are discussed below: Architects use a variety of tools and technologies to perform their tasks. Technology helps architects to create innovative designs, communicate their ideas effectively, and build structures efficiently. Read also: List of Java Architect Interview Questions and Answers Roles of Technology in Architecture |
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