Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep

Re:Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep by tomjen3 on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @03:29AM (#2836212)

Not as rare as you would think. Knuth, though not formally trained, has been doing the same (from his wikipedia page):

>In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran,[10] is also the author of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated,[11] in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book. Each verse is accompanied by a rendering in calligraphic art, contributed by a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf.

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Re:Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep by gjm11 on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @05:43AM (#2836545)

3:16 is a beautiful book, and the idea underlying it is a very nice one. Knuth also has a book called "Things a computer scientist rarely talks about", derived from a set of lectures he gave at MIT, which is mostly about the 3:16 project.

I don't think it was exactly "a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf". I think Knuth worked with each calligrapher individually; Zapf just happens to be the most famous of them (albeit mostly for his work in typography).

Someone -- I forget who -- called Knuth's technique in the 3:16 project "the way of the cross section", which is a lovely pun.

(In case it is relevant to anyone's evaluation of the above: I am an atheist but spent years as a Christian.)

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