Earlier today in our Campfire chat room we shared a cartoon, discussed Textorize (a Ruby script that generates image headlines with better text rendering than Photoshop), and posted an interesting tweet. This shot is a good example of how chatting takes on a whole new dimension when you can add in images, tweets, etc.
Herraro G.
on 30 Sep 09I don’t get it.
Lascar Anderssen
on 30 Sep 09So what do you guys think about Google Wave? Wouldn’t it do this and 100 other things?
Tom H
on 30 Sep 09I made this about a year ago, there were a few rough edges so I never bothered publishing it… sub-pixel rendering is a hot topic now so maybe I will.
Anyway, try this out on your logo, sub-pixel downsampling with any image: http://www.stainlessvision.com/lab/sub-pixel-downsampler/subpixel.swf
Nicolo'
on 30 Sep 09Hey guys, just like Lascar, I think everyone would love to hear your opinion about Google Wave. And today would be the perfect day to say it… :-) thanks
Joe
on 30 Sep 09Reminds of way back when facebook introduced images and videos in their comments. I personally think it cheapens the interface a little.
Brian Pan
on 30 Sep 09SvN has a different logo font (on this page) than the company logo?!
Tobin Harris
on 30 Sep 09I get it, I think this stuff is cool.
I wonder how UML diagrms via http://yuml.me would look in a campfire scroll?
Sorry about the self promotion, but I seriously am curious :)
Happy
on 30 Sep 09Good eye Brian. Wonder which (if either) is the official logo?
Gregory
on 30 Sep 09@Tom H
That flash app looks AWESOME.
However, the image preview is crazy small. So small that I can’t tell if it’s better or worse.
Can you make the image thumbnail to be the same size as the uploaded image file?
Tom H
on 30 Sep 09@Gregory
Thanks :)
The preview is the full image; you have to start with an image that is three times the size you need it because the method essentially packs three horizontal pixels into one.
Jeff
on 30 Sep 09@Tom H, that is amazing! I have a feeling it’s going to get a lot of attention now.
Gregory
on 01 Oct 09@Tom H
How is this then any different that using Photoshop and scaling down?
Everyone knows that if you start with a super high-resolution image/text in Photoshop and simply scale it down … as opposed to starting at the desired (smaller) size, you’ll get better looking results.
Tom H
on 01 Oct 09@Gregory
Standard downsampling simply shrinks the image and evens out the pixels to approximate the original. Sub-pixel downsampling does this but takes advantage of the Red Green Blue elements that make up a pixel on your screen, allowing it to make the scaled image slightly sharper.
Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
Will
on 01 Oct 09Mad props go out to http://propaneapp.com for making Campfire rock some socks off as a chat client.
JF
on 01 Oct 09We’re looking forward to checking out Wave too. We don’t have invites yet so we can’t jump in.
pht
on 01 Oct 09@JF : I guess bribing you into sending me you email adress in exchange for one of the few wave invites I have left is pointless ;) ?
Gregory
on 01 Oct 09@pht
jason [at] 37signals…
Anonymous Coward
on 01 Oct 09@Nicolo’ Google ripped Wave off. That’s my thoughts.
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