Data journalist and illustrator at the Financial Times, Obviously keen on data visualisation. Lover of design & typography. Fond of whippets.
Joined October 2018
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Proud to work for an organisation that stands up to nonsense
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Quote of the day, ‘… the Blender conference is just full of artists who want to be engineers and engineers who want to be artists, it’s nerd central’ … I am with my tribe
Latest graphic showing how the bios system used AI to link nerve impulses to artificial limbs. AI-powered bionic limbs come at too high a cost for many via @FT on.ft.com/4ctmd3f
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How a mind-boggling device changed economic history on.ft.com/3TikLbU
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13/ This is the amazing Professor Allan McRobie with @BobHaslett and WongDoody team. Allan demonstrated it, and allowed us to measure and capture every nuance of its analogue beauty.
ALT A photo of Bob Haslett, professor Allan McRobie and two WongDoody team memebrs standing in front of a restored Phillips Machine at Cambridge University
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7/ In 2016, shortly after joining the FT, I found out my colleague @BobHaslett just as mad about the machine as I was. Bob resolved to build a digital version in javascript. I felt it was a tad ambitious for Bob's FIRST EVER CODING PROJECT...
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14/ WongDoody built a 3D model of the machine in Maya and imported it into Unity to simulate the flow of pink water through the machine's veins.
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15/ As soon as we brought that into Apple Vision Pro, everything made perfect, mad, bonkers sense. It means I can drop a working Mk II Phillips machine into my living room and play around with it. Goosebump-inducing.
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17/ How Bill Phillips, 'the Indiana Jones of economics', came to be a student at LSE in 1949 is a whole other story. @TimHarford can you tell you all about it and you can read more from me about our digital version in our free-to-read FT weekend package ft.com/money-machine
See how we brought Bill Phillips’s machine back to life in VR. It wouldn’t have been possible without the enthusiasm of @theboysmithy FT colleagues. @AllanMcRobie generosity with his time. Or the fantastic work of @wongdoody_eu on.ft.com/3Xy22eU via @financialtimes
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And if you've come for the stories about crocodile-hunting, POW-camp-sabotaging war hero Bill Phillips, stay for the work my colleagues @BobHaslett @theboysmithy and others have done bringing the machine to life. Astonishing: ft.com/content/547a3fea-378d…
Sun is shining and a week off. So of course my back goes completely out. I can even sit upright ATM. Just venting the frustration
The extendscript debugger extension for Visual Studio Code really could do with a rethink. Scripting illustrator really shouldn’t be this cumbersome.
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Organoid research crosses a new frontier. In a boost for prenatal medicine, foetal stem cells extracted from amniotic flue grow into miniature lungs, intestine and kidneys. @GreatOrmondSt @ucl ft.com/content/ddfd64d4-5fba… via @ft
Interesting working on the graphics for this piece by @clivecookson. Organoid research crosses a new frontier. In a boost for prenatal medicine, foetal stem cells extracted from amniotic flue grow into miniature lungs, intestine and kidneys. ft.com/content/ddfd64… via @ft
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Visual explainer: Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing
After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before
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Global chip sales are soaring, but to stay ahead of the pack the right bets must be made. The technological reputation and financial standing of manufacturers and governments depends on it
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Scientists are turning to vertical, tower-like construction and rethinking packaging. Companies are bundling together chips with different functions to work like single electronic brains. Some manufacturers are untangling power wiring and interconnects
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ALT A 3D model showing the back-side power architecture used by some chipmakers. The power wiring is moved below the transistors, separating it from the signal interconnects which are above.
ALT A 3D model of a chiplet, or multi-chip module (MCM). MCMs see groups of chips with different functions built on separate pieces of silicon and then bundled together to work like a single electronic brain. In this example, based on Intel’s Meteor Lake, four chiplets have been arranged on a base of silicon circuitry which connects them together.
Been busy developing some 3d models for the visual story telling team on the process of manufacturing the world's smallest microchips:
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