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by angry_moose 946 days ago
Fun plot style, but the "noise" is too regular to really look right. Seems like like it basically just superimposes a sine wave onto all the straight lines.

Compare the axes of the plots, or the vertical lines on the bar chart which have a pretty distinct periodicity, to the original: https://xkcd.com/373/

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Yes that's my take. I think its good enough for most use cases but if you really wanted that random effect you might consider replacing the lines using something like an ipad and pencil or stylus.
> but the "noise" is too regular to really look right

They probably did add the randomness (haven't checked nor confirmed), but it could be the higher resolution that makes it look really clear.

Yeah more wavy than scribbly