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Re: I'm telling you, they're closed!

Posted By: Nathan <nathan22t@yahoo.com>
Date: 11 June 2001, 19:27

In Response To: I'm telling you, they're closed! (Locucious)

> They ARE closed! They don't appear to be when blown up, because pixels are
> less accurate than what your brain depicts them to be.

> The symbol was most likely made in a vector art program (my specialty),
> and then redered at a smaller size. At such a small size, thin lines turn
> into blurred pixels. This is just a smart renderer, because it fools the
> brain enough to look like it actually is a thin line. But when the
> rendered image is blown up, you get a blurred, disconnected-LOOKING mess.

> According to your logic, the ring around the center is a bunch of
> varying-sized, blurry rectangles. When you zoom out, it is most obviously
> a ring.

Yes, but there are plenty of pixels there to make the line become thinner and still enclose the shape. They weren't used.

- Nathan

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