A Spider and a Flower from S Africa
Six weeks of over-landing in Africa meant that I’ve seen many large game. When I came back, however, there were two encounters from South Africa that I had to identify. The first is a spider in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens (Cape Town, S Africa), which was unusual (to me): I didn’t find anything like it when I searched for “South Africa spiky spider”, and I was ready to ask for help from the bug-ID experts at the WhatsThisBug subreddit. Lo and behold, this...
Read MoreWebsite Maintenance: Mobile-enabled theme
Switching to a new theme that’s more usable on mobile gadgets. This required re-shuffling many things on the back-end… still, should be back to normal shortly! Edit note: this isn’t working out :(
Read MoreImage Trace Comparison: Illustrator CS5, CS6, and VectorMagic
A mid-2012 comparison of the CS5, CS6, and Vector Magic image tracing engines. Results were obtained from B&W line art, non-photorealistic (NPR) illustrations of differing original resolution, and photographs.
Read MorePictorial IR & NMR Guides in Spanish
Interpretando RMN-1H y Interpretando IR cartoon, en Espanol. Jon Chui, traducido por Henry Hughes.
Read MoreNotes on Mnemonica: Order Visualization
Visualizing the cyclical quasi-order within Tamariz’ Mnemonica stack.
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Jon is a chemist who also makes illustrations, plays the flute, swims, and has one too many curiosities. He was born and raised in Hong Kong before studying in Italy and Canada. Jon now teaches at the United World College in Hong Kong. 