https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/raster/ Recent content in Raster on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/10/05/gorilla/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/10/05/gorilla/ tl;dr You can convert a line drawing to datapoints with a sprinkle of {magick}. Ape escape Have you seen that video where you’re so focused on counting basketball passes that you fail to see the gorilla moving across the screen? This kind of selective attention was studied by two researchers, Yanai and Lercher, who provided subjects with a dataset that looked like a gorilla when plotted. The gorilla was found less often if the subjects were also given a hypothesis to investigate.