Making a big letter "a" poster
In micrometer's room (1000x magnification),
a letter "a" is as big as a person.
"a" poster
Here is a 72 page document you can cut and tape into a giant "a" poster (9 x 8 pages).
The "a" is in a 12 point Times-Roman font, magnified 1000x. Thus, it's a 12000 point "a" :).
letter_a.pdf
(.ps.gz)
Poster Assembly
From the poster man page by Jos van Eijndhoven...
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Our preferred method for the assembly of a poster from multiple sheets is as follows:
- Arrange the sheets in the proper order on a large table or on the
floor.
- Remove from all sheets, except from those in the leftmost column
or bottom row, their left and bottom cutmargin.
- In left-to-right and bottom-to-top order, glue the right (and top)
cutmargin and stick the right (and upper) neighboring page
on top of that.
- Turn the glued-together poster face bottom, and put adhesive tape
on the sheet edges (on the backside of the poster) for more strength.
- Remove the remaining cutmargin around the poster.
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Notes
Bug: The edges of this letter are far too sharp. A printer dot, at 600 dots-per-inch, is ~4 cm! And the paper is, of course, 1000x too smooth.
The poster letter is gray, rather than black, to conserve ink-jet printer ink.
You can photocopy it to make it black.
If there is interest, I'll add an A4 version.
And a cover page. And...
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Doables:
Cover page with example 12 pt text.
And tiled-paper image as assembly guide.
Micrograph of some printed text.
Discuss toner/ink-dot size vs sharpness. Paper fiber size.
Describe creation.
Link to poster page.
Tweak gray level. Page size?
A4? A0?
History:
2002-Jun-05 Online.
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