Rainer Simon
@aboutgeo.bsky.social
A collector of things worth knowing and things not worth knowing. Freelance software developer. Web/UI/Maps/Visualization/Image Annotation/Open Source. https://rainersimon.io
Danke, schau's mir gerade an - da sind definitiv einige interessante Projekte dabei!
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Danke, schau's mir gerade an - da sind definitiv einige interessante Projekte dabei!
Source at the Bavarian State Library: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...
Machina Emblematica: machina.rainersimon.io
Machina Emblematica: machina.rainersimon.io
Machina Emblematica
I am the Machina Emblematica, built to preserve the knowledge of Joachim Camerarius' Symbola et Emblemata and to guide those who seek it.
machina.rainersimon.io
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Source at the Bavarian State Library: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1...
Machina Emblematica: machina.rainersimon.io
Machina Emblematica: machina.rainersimon.io
Relevant pages linked to the answer. Although relevance may vary (we didn't yet figure out a threshold to drop less relevant results). But by and large, if the Machina talks about it, the image will be among them.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Relevant pages linked to the answer. Although relevance may vary (we didn't yet figure out a threshold to drop less relevant results). But by and large, if the Machina talks about it, the image will be among them.
And a decent Leuchtmarker can be a perfect complement to those! 😀
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
And a decent Leuchtmarker can be a perfect complement to those! 😀
It actually works pretty well on mobile, too! With the caveat that – like Isla de Muerta – the 14th annotation can only be found by those who already knew where it was.
Hint: you have to hit the little marker before "prevented". The rest is buried below the other, shorter annotations above.
Hint: you have to hit the little marker before "prevented". The rest is buried below the other, shorter annotations above.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It actually works pretty well on mobile, too! With the caveat that – like Isla de Muerta – the 14th annotation can only be found by those who already knew where it was.
Hint: you have to hit the little marker before "prevented". The rest is buried below the other, shorter annotations above.
Hint: you have to hit the little marker before "prevented". The rest is buried below the other, shorter annotations above.
Not yet! :-) I'll still hold off for a bit with posting the "solution". But it is a tricky edge case that's, frankly, not at all solved in the current system. (Hint: you *can* find the 14th annotation on a desktop PC if you explore carefully. But on touch, it's pretty much impossible.)
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Not yet! :-) I'll still hold off for a bit with posting the "solution". But it is a tricky edge case that's, frankly, not at all solved in the current system. (Hint: you *can* find the 14th annotation on a desktop PC if you explore carefully. But on touch, it's pretty much impossible.)
So, the caveat: the demo has 14 annotations total. Can you find them all?
There's an edge case I haven't cracked yet. It makes one particular annotation difficult (and unintuitive) to select. If you spot it (or don’t!), I’d love to hear what you think.
There's an edge case I haven't cracked yet. It makes one particular annotation difficult (and unintuitive) to select. If you spot it (or don’t!), I’d love to hear what you think.
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
So, the caveat: the demo has 14 annotations total. Can you find them all?
There's an edge case I haven't cracked yet. It makes one particular annotation difficult (and unintuitive) to select. If you spot it (or don’t!), I’d love to hear what you think.
There's an edge case I haven't cracked yet. It makes one particular annotation difficult (and unintuitive) to select. If you spot it (or don’t!), I’d love to hear what you think.
Could be a solution. But I think it may also become hard to navigate quickly with more overlaps – plus also a potential accessibility pitfall. (A11y-wise, underlines should actually be pretty ok I believe.)
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Could be a solution. But I think it may also become hard to navigate quickly with more overlaps – plus also a potential accessibility pitfall. (A11y-wise, underlines should actually be pretty ok I believe.)
Could be a solution. But I think it will also become hard to navigate quickly – plus also a potential accessibility pitfall. (A11y-wise, underlines should actually be pretty ok I believe.)
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Could be a solution. But I think it will also become hard to navigate quickly – plus also a potential accessibility pitfall. (A11y-wise, underlines should actually be pretty ok I believe.)
Thanks! Do you mean their alignment viewer? (E.g. pubs.perseids.org/bodin/). It's a good reference, but I think only uses highlights to visually connect passages – which means it wouldn't have any of the "hard" issues, with overlaps and stacked annotation layers. Or did you think of another tool?
bodin
pubs.perseids.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Thanks! Do you mean their alignment viewer? (E.g. pubs.perseids.org/bodin/). It's a good reference, but I think only uses highlights to visually connect passages – which means it wouldn't have any of the "hard" issues, with overlaps and stacked annotation layers. Or did you think of another tool?
And it's not even because of one of your texts this time 😀 (well, the ever-classic sample text still is a nod back to that time, of course!) But, yes: if we ever manage to come up with a truly great solution for super-dense/-complex annotation, we'd surely have to name that release after you ;-)
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
And it's not even because of one of your texts this time 😀 (well, the ever-classic sample text still is a nod back to that time, of course!) But, yes: if we ever manage to come up with a truly great solution for super-dense/-complex annotation, we'd surely have to name that release after you ;-)