The Font Magicians - Computerphile

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Making fonts look good at low resolutions - many thought the problem insolvable - two men started Adobe and proved them wrong. Professor David Brailsford renders the story. The Great 202 Jailbreak: http://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8w Mainframes & the Unix Revolution: http://youtu.be/-rPPqm44xLs Upside Down Trees (Huffman Coding): http://youtu.be/umTbivyJoiI Typesetters in the '80's: http://youtu.be/XvwNKpDUkiE Graphics Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckrPkEUK5iMQrQyvj9Z6WCrm Conrad Taylor's report on John Warnock: http://bit.ly/warnockreport http://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

Published 2014-01-31 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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