User talk:Nornagon~enwiki

Hi there. Thanks for being interested in enzymes. These are very cool molecular machines and reward any interest you may take in them now or in the future. I don't think your biology teacher is wrong, just not being completely accurate. Some enzymes speed up reactions that result in a second reaction being slowed. For example, kinases that phosphorylate ribosomal elongation factors speed up the phosphorylation reaction. However, once the elongation factor is phosphorylated, this inhibits the reaction the elongation factor carries out. Nature paper from 1988 on eEIF2 phosphorylation

So an enzyme can catalyse its reaction, and as a consequence slow a second, unrelated reaction.

If you have any comments or quentions in the future I'd be happy to help out, I work on this stuff every day so I like talking about it to anybody who is interested and curious. TimVickers 04:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Blend modes comparison image

Hello there! I really like your graphs of the Soft-Light blend mode at Blend modes#Soft Light. Very clear about the discontinuity in the Photoshop function. Would it be possible for them to be updated to show the results of the soft-light mode defined in the recent W3C/Cairo/Adobe PDF specs (same function, but slightly different)? If not, I'll try to make something similar with gnuplot. --A. T. Chadwick (talk) 14:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'll update it :) Do you have links to the relevant specs? Nornagon (talk) 07:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Should be linked on Blend modes#Soft Light. If not, it's here. I'm not at all sure there's an actual discontinuity now, though (Talk)! The function can be proven continuous, at least my rusty maths hints that it can. What's the reasoning behind those Mathematica contours? They hint very strongly at sharp steppiness, but I see no sharp step in matplotlib output or the rollovers at [1]... perhaps we should do it that way instead? Looks like a simple quantization was used. --A. T. Chadwick (talk) 16:37, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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