8-bit playing card design by Artemy Lebedev, seen on subtraction.com
Seeing this lovely set of playing cards gives me the excuse to air a thought I had a while ago.
As a child I played cards lots. And the skills I didn’t realise I was learning are dead useful for seeing different ways into data, handy if you work in infographics these days: groups, sub-groups, hierarchy, sets, patterns, mental arithmetic, different ways of cutting and rearranging the same set of numbers. Same idea as here.
Add it to the curriculum immediately.
Tags: Artemy Lebedev, numbers, pattern, playing cards, skills, subtraction.com
Hi, Lulu
the card game “set” is the absolute pinacle of the grouping aspect of card games http://www.setgame.com/set/
After you’ve grasped what constitues a set in the game the process of learning to recognise them quickly is quite unsettling, well for me it was anyway. I find it totally impossible to say how it’s done – no ‘rational’ systematic approach is fast enough to compete so you have to engage you pattern matching hardware. It’s weird in a cool way.