nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
983: The colourist - unaware or more aware than us all?

==Explanation==
The first two lines of this strip consist of an erroneous presentation of the 2011-11-30 strip and a version that the author themselves corrected. The former garfield.com archive had a corrected version (preserved on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here); the version on the secure-domain mirror on what was once the now-busted images.ucomics.com domain as well as the version on the main GoComics archive are still the error version.
==The author writes:==
I noticed the apparent colouring error in the November 30th strip and sought to "correct" it. However then I realised that the colourist was on to something that the inker hadn't realised. After over 33 years of antics, Jon should be used to it by now. He can barely manage the energy to look at whatever wacky scheme his cat has come up with today.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Caption: November 30th, 2011 (Original)
Jon: Your Christmas list needs to be a little more practical.
Garfield: Fine
{Jon is uninterested.}
Jon: This is an ice cream truck.
Garfield: Transportation and nourishment!
Caption: November 30th, 2011 (As suggested by the line art)
Jon: Your Christmas list needs to be a little more practical.
Garfield: Fine
{Jon is shocked.}
Jon: This is an ice cream truck.
Garfield: Transportation and nourishment!
Caption: The colorist's idea applied to the two previous days
Garfield: Here is a box.
Garfield: Fill it with something and give it to me.
{Jon is uninterested.}
Jon: Ah, the spirit of Christmas.
Jon: Do you know what you want for Christmas, Garfield?
{Garfield hands Jon a magazine, Jon is uninterested.}
Jon: This is a picture of a pizzeria.
Garfield: We could put it right over there.
Category:Thompkins
98: Exquisite Garfield

==Explanation==
Well-explained in the author's note.
==The author writes:==
This comic was the idea of Colin Foster, who contributed the graphical layout. His idea was to run an Exquisite Corpse using Garfield panels.
After assembling the nine panels from various Garfield strips and removing the dialogue, Colin handed the image over to us. We asked for nine volunteers to write the dialogue, one panel each, in sequence. Each writer (except the first) only got to see the panel they were to fill in and the one immediately before it.
Not only did it work reasonably well, we've set a record for most authors on a single strip.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield watching TV}
TV: Tonight: a special film about the dangers lurking in your garden.
TV: Danger #1: mutant grass!
TV: It's green!
Garfield: Sounds pretty bad so far.
TV: Simply insert your finger to enjoy your favourite meal!
TV: This product makes restaurants obsolete! Sorry, waiters!
TV: And couch potatoes as we know them...
TV 2nd voice: will be a thing of the past!
Garfield: I'll pioneer new forms.
TV: Won't that be bad for TV shows like this?
TV 2nd voice: Of course not! it'll be better for us!
TV 2nd voice: We just need to explode this lasagna, it's the only way!
Garfield: Food and clichés don't mix.
SFX: BEEoooo... {Garfield flicks the TV off with the remote}
==Trivia==
*Although some later strips sample enough Square Root of Minus Garfield strips to cover more authors than credited and 5302: Garfward Jonbles was a fourteen-way collaboration albeit only four of its contributors officially credited with a SRoMG profile, the record of ten officially credited authors for a single Square Root of Minus Garfield strip is still a record to this day (as of this writing).
==Later references==
Category:John Wallace
Category:Matt Albrecht
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Dliessmgg
Category:Wendel Scardua
Category:John Callaghan
Category:Manyhills
Category:Tah
Category:Mac Almy
Category:Jive Swede
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
990: Garfield's Horror Heater

==Explanation==
This strip tweaks the premise of the "Garfield's Horror Theater" strip into featuring a horror heater. The middle panel is made a depiction of the heater in the McCallister home in the film Home Alone, followed by a depiction of the character Kevin McCallister (played by Macaulay Culkin as stated in the transcript) screaming; Kevin screamed a few times during the film, one of which was in an encounter with the family heater. The author's notes imply the film's been so well-seen that it is likely to have been seen by anyone who sees this strip.
==The author writes:==
If you haven't seen this movie, you have no childhood.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Horror Heater".
{picture of an evil furnace}
{picture of Macaulay Culkin screaming}
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Horror Heater".
Category:Grant Fikes
Category:Film references
999: The Physical Impossibility of Garfield in the Mind of Someone Living

==Explanation==
This strip is a reference to The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a famous art piece by Damien Hirst.
==The author writes:==
Ink on paper, plastic, cotton, glass, water, and a 20 euro cent piece. Bidding starts at £10,000. And 20 euro cents.
This strip is also available in 3D!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: And what are you supposed to be?</br>
Garfield: Another hapless bather falls prey to the tiger shark.</br>
{The strip is suspended in a vitrine full of water}
Category:Art references
Category:Manyhills
Category:Painting the medium
Category:Long titles
99: Pimp My Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon uses Garfield as a paperweight. In this edit, Jon is making a "Yo dawg" joke by placing Garfield on a newspaper, presumably on top of a Garfield strip.
"Yo dawg" originated as a sort of catch phrase of Alvin Nathaniel Joiner, better known by his stage name Xzibit, when he hosted the MTV show Pimp My Ride (hence this strip title); frequently, at least by reputation, he would have things added to the participants' cars that they didn't ask for and which he didn't ask if they wanted. This gave rise to a meme in which he or someone else would have heard that someone liked something, so they put something on something so they can do two things at once.
This strip uses -- aside from the real spelling of "dog" -- the repetitive form of the meme, in which the liked thing, the thing put, the thing on which the other thing is put, and even the two things someone can do all have the same name.
Garfield, it can be assumed, does not like this meme.
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: Yo dog, I heard you like Garfield...</br>
Jon: So I put a Garfield on your Garfield.</br>
Jon: So you can Garfield while you Garfield.</br>
Garfield: Kill me.
Category:Comet James
Category:Television references
9: Colour-Averaged Garfield: 2007

==Explanation==
McLeish here has averaged the color values of every non-Sunday Garfield comic from 2007. The results end up indicative of the strip's repetitive nature, as Garfield and Jon tend to stand in the exact same spot, and the dialogue and panels are always set up in the exact same way.
It is impractical to categorize this very article in every Garfield original strip date category (excluding Sundays) corresponding to 2007. As such, and as this strip does not list any credited Garfield strips whatsoever, this article is not categorized in any Garfield original strip date categories.
==The author writes:==
This is the result of averaging the colour values at each pixel for every regular (non-Sunday) Garfield strip from 2007. Buried in the blur you can notice some interesting features:
* The absolutely static 3-panel structure with a borderless panel in the middle.
* Jon tends to stand on the left and Garfield on the right.
* The dialogue is always lined up exactly in the same vertical location.
==Trivia==
* There is no transcript for this comic.
Category:David McLeish
Category:Color-averages
Mezzacotta

mezzacotta is a "brand" of various webcomics created by the Comics Irregulars (headed by David-Morgan Marr, creator of Irregular Webcomic!), including Square Root of Minus Garfield. It is ostensibly for all "the half-baked ideas [we] come up with"; indeed, "mezza cotta" is Italian for "half-baked".
The webcomics contained within mezzacotta are:
* mezzacotta proper: a randomly-generated strip with archives supposedly stretching back to before the creation of the universe (see the first one here).
* Irregular Webcomic!: a primarily LEGO-based strip with subject matter reaching from Dungeons & Dragons to Indiana Jones knockoffs to Steve Irwin knock-offs. It predates and inspired the Comics Irregulars (and thus, mezzacotta).
* Lightning Made of Owls: a comic with various characters and a host of different settings and art styles; the characters have only one specific identifying feature, encouraging this sort of creativity.
* Comments on a Postcard: no comic, just a broken image link and an author's note. It's up to the readers' imaginations to wonder what the strip was. (The creator of this wiki has a page here, by the way.)
* Awkward Fumbles: people submit artwork, and other people submit dialogue for it. Updated irregularly for its first year of existence, then took a four-year hiatus between 2010 and 2014.
* iToons: follows the same basic concept as Square Root of Minus Garfield, but with a focus on remixing comics other than Garfield.
* The Dinosaur Whiteboard: based on Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics. Users write dialogue on a Dinosaur Comics-themed whiteboard, take a picture of it, and send it to the admins.
Reference Glossary

For the sake of organization, here's a list of everything referenced in a Square Root of Minus Garfield comic.
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==30 Rock==
*?
==Animals==
*?
==Aqua==
* "Sliding Doorsfield" has Garfield reciting the lyrics to "Turn Back Time".
==A Week of Garfield==
*
?
==Back to the Future==
* "Garfield Plus 88 mph" has Garfield tossing the DeLorean at Nermal (the strip being edited ran on the same day Doc Brown first tested the device, within the movie's story).
* 2948: Biff-Field, or Garfield to the Future includes an appearance from Biff Tannen.
==Bayaeux Rhythms==
* "The Bayaeux Garfield" imitates the graphical style of this comic.
==Dinosaur Comics==
* "Qwantzfield" imitates the style of this comic.
==Disney theme parks==
*i
==Hamlet==
*i
==Homestar Runner==
* "Garfield-Star Runner" edits the characters to have no arms, much like many characters from the series (including the titular runner).
==Ice Cube==
*i
==Internet memes==
* "Cat Memes" compares several older Garfield strips to Grumpy, Nyan, Happy, Ceiling, and Longcat.
==Laugh-Out-Loud Cats==
* "Garfield Is the Perfect Disguise" edits a strip of this comic to include Garfield.
==The Legend of Zelda==
I
==Locations==
I
==Looney Tunes==
* "Violence-Free Garfield", in addition to copying the style of censorship employed for reruns of this series, also has a direct homage to the title cards used on CBS' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show and ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show from 1985 to 1989.
==The Loud House==
* 4271: Everybody Loves Leni features an appearance by Leni Loud and is also titled after an episode of the show.
* 4173: Haiku in Garfield features the character Haiku.
==Lorde==
I
==The Matrix==
* In "Breaking the 4th Wall", after said fourth wall is broken, Garfield says "You didn't see anything, Mr. Anderson."
==Meat Loaf==
I
==Mega Man==
I
==mezzacotta and friends==
* "Garfield meets mezzacotta" is a crossover with mezzacotta proper.
* "The Problem with Webcomic Buffers" is a SRoMG strip hosted on the Lightning Made of Owls site. "Web Affair" is the exact opposite.
==Michael Jackson==
I
==Monty Python==
* "The Cat Who Says 'Ni!'", as one would expect, has Garfield reciting several of the odd things the Knights Who Say "Ni!" (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail) say.
==Motörhead==
I
==MOTHER==
I
==Paranoia==
I
==Peanuts==
* Both the very first "Garfield Linus Garfield" and "Garfield Linus Arbuckle" replace someone in the middle panel with Linus.
==People==
I
==The Princess Bride==
* "Six-Fingered Man" references Count Rugen, the six-fingered villain of this movie.
==Simon & Garfunkel==
I
==The Simpsons==
* "The Garfield & Poochie Show" replaces Odie with Poochie.
* 4579: I Hope You're Prepared For An Unforgettable Christmas refers to the "Steamed Hams" segment from "22 Short Films About Springfield".
 
==Sliding Doors==
* The title of "Sliding Doorsfield" refers to this movie.
==Star Wars==
* The title and final panel of "Don't make me kill you" refer to the final battle of Revenge of the Sith.
==Super Mario Bros.==
I
==Tom Waits==
I
Category:References
Square Root of Minus Garfield

Square Root of Minus Garfield is a webcomic started by a group named the Comics Irregulars on November 15th, 2008. It is a subsection of the larger website mezzacotta.
SRoMG (as it is often abbreviated) is composed of various strips from the nationally-syndicated comic strip Garfield, edited in an astounding variety of ways. It is generally held among the readers of the strip that Garfield is a tired, stale franchise, and thus their edits are often surreal and avant-garde. A good number of them heavily lean on references - which is part of the reason this wiki was created.
Anyone can submit a strip to the site, but it often takes months before they are published on the site (a fact that is sometimes referenced in the comics themselves).
KeyConcepts

Key Concepts:
Vector arithmetic:
Vector arithmetic 
Vector multiplication methods
Finding Angles:
Law of Cosines
Test for 90* between vectors (orthagonality
Dot product (used in calculation)
length of vector (magnitude)
Given triangle sides find their angle
Find sin() given cos()
Combining Vectors:
Find 3rd triangle side given 2 sides
Find new vector (diagonal) from combining vectors
Given vector and angle, find length of vector at angle
Component (one vector projected onto another)
Areas:
Triangle area
Determinant: parallelogram area (two triangles)
Volume (3d area found with determinants)
Cross Product:
Cross product
Direction (i.e. direction of a vector in 3d)
Equations of Planes:
(i.e. find if point exists in a plane [flat region in a 3d space])
Find if point is in plane
Triple product
Equation of the plane
Matrix Multiplication:
Matrix Product (Multiplication)
Identity matrix and rotation
Calculate matrix inverse. Use it with Ax = b (linear system) to transform one matrix into another
System of Equations:
Solving a system of equations
Intersection points as solutions to systems of equations
Equations of Planes:
Calculating normals
Find a vector that is the intersection between two planes
Find if a point is on a plane
Distance of point from plane
Find if planes are parallel
Find if a vector and a plane are parallel
Matricies: Homogenous, inhomogenous, consistant, inconsistant, singular, nonsingular, and ill-conditioned
Parametric Equations:
Representing and finding lines with parametric equations including x,y,z and t (time)
Finding intersections of lines with parametric equations
Line Intersecting with a Plane:
Find point of intersection of a line with a plane
Formula for Line On a Plane
Parametric Curves:
Graphing Circles, Eclipses, and Other Shapes
Cycloids and Measuring Distance Traveled on an Axis
Approximation of Point Near Bottom of Cycloid
Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration. Tangent Vectors
Arc Length, Velocity, Distance Traveled Along a Curve
Find xy-Equations of a Curve
Kepler's Second Law: Area is Swept Out by Line from Sun to Planet at a Constant Rate
Partial Derivatives:
Computing Partial Derivatives
Sec1ExamReview

Review:
1.) vectors, dot product
dot product of two vectors is done by summing their components. Geometrically it is the length of A
multiplied by the length of B multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
Applications include finding angles and testing for perpendicularity
Practice 1A: Practice exam problem 1.
2.) Cross-product (with determinants): 
\begin{vmatrix}i\ \ j\ \ k \\ a1\ b1\ c1 \\ a2\ b2\ c2\end{vmatrix}\mathrm{\ =\ A\ x\ B}
Applications include triangle area = 1/2 |A x B|. 
Finding normal vectors, equation of a plane ax+by+cz = d generates normal vector <a,b,c>=N
Practice test problem 5 includes normal finding
equations of lines, find where line intersects a plane
P(t) moving on line with velocity v
\mathrm{P(t) = P_0 + t*}\vec{v}
taylor series is not on the exam
3.) Matricies, linear systems, inverting matricies
AX=B
if \mathrm{det(A)\ <>\ 0\ then\ X\ =\ A^{-1}\ .\ B}
if det(A) = 0 then there are no solutions or infinitely many solutions
rotating matrices is not on the test, can be useful info outside of the class in the future though 
4) Finding parametric equations
Could be similar to ones on practice exam
Equations r = r(t), velocity, acceleration. Differentiating vector identities
Kelper's law not needed to know for exam
Examples are in practice test problems 2,4,6
Applications include Cycloid, sphere properties, xy-equations
"solve by using vector methods" includes systems of equations, etc. instead of other methods
\mathrm{Unit\ tension\ vector\ =\ T\ =\ }\vec{v}\mathrm{\ /\ |}\vec{v}\mathrm{|}
how to take derivative of dot or cross product is needed to be known for exam (e.g. product rule)
need to be able to know how to find a component of a vector in a certain direction
Sec1Sess1

Section 1 Session 1
Adding vectors
\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 3 \end{bmatrix} + \begin{bmatrix} 4 & 7 \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} (1+4) & (3+7) \end{bmatrix} 
in a later lecture it is stated how if angle from origin is known and one x or y coord is known than the other x or y coord can be found by a conversion formula
Scalar vector multiplication
3 * \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 & 3 \\ 4 & 5 & 6 \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} 3 & 6 & 9 \\ 12 & 15 & 18 \end{bmatrix}
matrix by matrix multiplication is in the order of rows in A multiplied by columns in B
Further links:
Vector Arithmatic http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcII/VectorArithmetic.aspx
vector multiplication methods
Sec1Sess10

Identity matrix can transform a matrix into itself (no change)
Example
I . X = X
For 3x3:
I = <<1 0 0><0 1 0><0 0 1>>
Plane can be rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees by rotation matrix <0 -1; 1 0>
Plane can be rotated counterclockwise 180 degrees by rotation matrix <0 -1; -1 0>
Sec1Sess11

Inverse matrix:
Inverse of A: Matrix M
Property that AM = I and MA = I
Need A to be a square matrix
M\ =\ A^{-1}
Linear System:
A . X = B
Linear system related reference: http://www.math.umd.edu/~petersd/460/linsyst460.pdf
Solution to A . X = B
is X = A^{-1}\ .\ B
Solving system of equations:
AX = B
A^{-1}\ .\ (A\ .\ X) = A^{-1}\ .\ B
therefore X = A^{-1}\ .\ B when A^{-1}\ cancels A
Inverse matrix = A^{-1} = 1 / det(A)
"adjoint matrix" = adj(A)
3x3 Matrix example steps
A = \langle 2 \ 3 \ 3 \ ; \ 2 \ 4 \ 5 \ ; \ 1 \ 1 \ 2 \ \rangle 
Find inverse of 3x3 matrix:
Step 1
MATRIX MINORS
(same as how determinants calculate them)
<4 5; 1 2> = 4*2-5*1=3
<2 5; 1 2> = -1
<3 3; 1 2> = 3
...
end result: <3 -1 -2; 3 1 -1; 3 4 2>
Step 2
COFACTORS
Flip signs in checkerboard pattern
+ - +
- + -
+ - +
Flip the sign: "-" means flip the sign of spot in checkerboard
Step 3
TRANSPOSE
Switch rows and columns
(swap rows and columns)
Step 4
DIVIDE BY DETERMINANT OF A
step 4 only works if det(A) <> 0, therefore det(A) <> 0 is a required condition
In General:
A . x = b
M(Ax) = Mb
x = Mb
This can be used to solve linear equations such as
x_1 +(2*x_2) = -1
(2*x_1)+(3*x_2) = 4
Using:
M(Ax) = (MA)x
= Ix
= x
For examples see http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-02sc-multivariable-calculus-fall-2010/1.-vectors-and-matrices/part-b-matrices-and-systems-of-equations/session-11-matrix-inverses/MIT18_02SC_MNotes_m2.pdf
Finding the inverse of a 2 × 2 matrix:
(i) Switch a and d. (ii) Change the signs on b and c. (iii) Divide by the determinant.
Sec1Sess13

Linear system is a series of equations
variables are looked for that solve all equations
intersection points of the lines from functions from each equation represents solutions to the series of equations.
given 3 planes they could all intersect at one point and that point is the solution
Solution to AX=B is given by X=A^{-1}B
if in 3 planes if plane_3 is parallel to plane_1 and plane_2 intersection, no solution could occur
if plane_1 and plane_2 intersection is within plane_3 (plane_3 contains intersection line) than infinitely many solutions could occur (any point on the line is a solution)
if plane_1, plane_2, and plane_3 are the same plane than the solution is that plane
An example of a case where 2 planes are parallel is when 2 of their 3 dimensions are always equal, e.g. x and y are equal but z is different.
Sec1Sess14

matrices can not always be inverted.
inverse = A^{-1} = 1 / det(A) * adj(A) where adj() is adjoint matrix
when determinant is 0, division by 0 can not occur and matrix inverse in not possible
Ax = b
Matrix is homogeneous if b = 0 and inhomogeneous if not.
inhomogeneous: det(A) is not 0, Ax = b has unique solution x = A^{-1}*b
homogeneous: det(A) is not 0, Ax = 0 has only trivial solution x = 0
HOMOGENEOUS CASE:
AX = 0
Trivial solution:
origin (0,0,0) is always the solution. The three planes pass through the origin
X = A-1 = 0
 det(A) = 0 when the normals of all variables equal 0, det(N_1, N_2, N_3) = 0 
in that case N_1, N_2, and N_3 are in the same plane and therefore are coplanar.
(parallelpiped has volume 0)
line through origin (O) perpendicular to plane N_1,\ N_2,\ N_3 is parallel (//) to all 3 planes and in fact contained within them. Therefore there are infinitely many solutions
Non-trivial solution:
 N_1 x (cross product) N_2 is parallel to N_1 and N_2 but also parallel to N_3 
The N_1 x N_2 vector goes along the line of intersections.
General Case: AX=B
if det(A) <> 0 then there is a unique solution X=A^{-1}*B .
if det(A) = 0 then either there is no solution or infinitely many solutions. One can tell if there are infinitely many if one can find any individual solutions.
consistent: for an inhomogeneous system if it has solutions it is consistent and it is inconsistent otherwise
In other phrasing:
Homogeneous systems: Ax = 0 has non-trivial solutions ⇔ (if and only if) det(A) = 0.
Inhomogeneous systems: Ax = b has the unique solution x = A^{-1} b , if det(A) <> 0 .
If |A| = 0, then Ax = b usually has no solutions, but does have solutions for some b.
Homogeneous system example:
x + 2y + 3z = 0
4x + 5y + 6z = 0
7x + 8y + cz = 0
Inhomogeneous system example:
x + 2y + 3z = 1
4x + 5y + 6z = 2
7x + 8y + cz = 3.
origin vectors lie in a plane if det(A) = 0
A^-1 exists only when det(A) <> 0
In a homogeneous system when det(A) = 0 a solution can be found by finding orthogonal vectors to the plane represented by each of the equations in the problem. Since det(A) = 0 all rows in the A matrix in Ax = 0 are in a plane. The orthogonal vectors can be found by taking the cross product of the first two (or any two) rows in the matrix A.
Orthogonal vectors finding example:
<1, 2, 3> × <4, 5, 6> = <<1 2 3><4 5 6>> = <−3, 6, −3>.
Ways to help describe |A|:
Singular: |A| = 0
Nonsingular or invertible if |A| <> 0
ill-conditioned: a problem that is highly sensitive to small changes in coefficients