Re:DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
by lpasselin on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:33AM
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Are there tools to easily create xkcd style diagrams similar to these?
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Re:DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
by pjc50 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:04PM
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I'm fairly sure that's technical pen on paper which has been scanned, run through a quantize filter to clean it up, and shrunk.
Re:DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
by bArray on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:07PM
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For sure, although not completely impossible to replicate in software.
Re:DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
by btgeekboy on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:34PM
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Balsamiq Mockups can make diagrams that look similar.
Re:DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
by dfox on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:07PM
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In this case almost certainly paper, technical pen and somewhat steady hand.
Re:DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
by colechristensen on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:39PM
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Drawing like this becomes natural on engineering paper or any generic graph paper with some practice.
Beats the heck out of any software for efficiency in communicating arbitrary ideas in particular because it is not an opinionated interface (personal opinions aside) and you can do what you imagine without limitation. When you have to scale to dozens of drawings or collaborators then the benefits of computerization show themselves, but not before.
With pen and paper the primary thing in my mind is the idea I'm trying to convey, with a computer it is how to convey it with the computer (until I've reached some level of expertise with the computer in a particular space).