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Personal blog · calculatedimages.blogspot.comsciencedesign

Richard Wheeler writes Calculated Images, a personal blog at calculatedimages.blogspot.com about science and design. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “3D Lightning (2013)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for its 2013 "3D lightning" photography post, which a commenter cites as an example of a photographic coincidence in a thread about two photographers shooting the same millisecond.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

From experimental art, photography and image generation to microscopy and science by Richard Wheeler. I run a research lab in the University of Oxford, with a focus on parasite cell biology, microscopes, and computational analysis.

Most-linked posts?

  1. 3D Lightning (2013)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. This has always been one of my favorite photographic coincidences. https://calculatedimages.blogspot.com/2013/05/3d-lightning.h...

    Comment linking /2013/05/3d-lightning.html

    on “Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time”
  2. Submitted 3D Lightning (2013) as a story · 184 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted 3D Lightning Reconstruction (2013) as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Light-Years of DNA as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted 3D Lightning Reconstruction as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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