Excellent Integral Image Description from CAS

[jesse_the_k]

I'm loving my membership in the Cloud Appreciation Society, which includes the educational "cloud a day" email newsletter. And because it's a teaching tool that highlights the distinctive elements of each cloud, the main text makes for an excellent image description. I find this approach much smoother than creating a separate image description bracketed away from the body of text.

Today's text:

Have you ever seen the state flag for Colorado, US? Well you have now, according to Kristen Erekson (Member 56,298). This formation of Cirrocumulus clouds producing an optical effect around the Sun known as a corona was spotted over Colorado by Kristen’s friend Christi Romney. It gives a pretty good impression of the flag’s design: a big red C around a yellow disc over a backdrop of white and dark blue. In Christi’s celestial tribute, the red C is formed by the iridescent colours of the corona, caused by the scattering of light by the tiny water droplets in the Cirrocumulus. The flag’s white and blue are provided by the contrast between cloud and sky, while its yellow disc comes thanks to the Sun. No need to look up what the flag looks like – you've as good as seen it already.

Today's image inside the cut.

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Comments

[isis]

Haha, speaking as a Coloradan, that's pretty good!

[jesse_the_k]

I appreciate your expert opinion!

[yourlibrarian]

It's great the things we can sign up for these days 🙂

I know there are several bead-of-the-month clubs

[jesse_the_k]

and I bet somebody will send you sex-toy boxes quarterly. (Icon is for pushing all your ...)

[runpunkrun]

Nice! I've been experimenting with describing images in my text if I'm, for example, discussing the icon I'm using on a post. I can go into more detail about the relevant parts that way, and I think it makes my prose stronger to include that kind of description instead of relying on people viewing the image or assuming they see it in the same way I do.

[jesse_the_k]

Exactly: we're taught that an image is worth a thousand words but that relies on all our perceivers coming up in a monoculture.

[esteefee]

Nice!!

[jesse_the_k]

<3

[tarasacon]

Nice! (The image and the effectively written teaching blurb.)