Comments on: Jacek’s Guide to Aspect Ratios http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:14:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Torley http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-717 Torley Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:26:26 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-717 @Jacek: Aye, that’s exactly what James said too, and the way I see it:

* A lot of Resis’ in-UI pictures are already squashed/stretched because they don’t know how to resize, and may be closer to 4:3 in many cases than some of the other oddball stuff. I’d rather have yummy omelets than half-ass, sad aspect ratios. DEFINITELY agree about advance communication, tho.

* Also — https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3692 AKA “Add ability to maintain aspect ratio for profile, places, classifieds, etc. pictures”.

]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Jacek Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:52:45 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-716 @Torley: Super! A word of warning -- if you change them to make them more consistent, it will break existing content. You'll get a lot of people complaining for about a week, and then everyone will forget about it. But sometimes you have to break a crooked bone to make an omelet. Or something like that. You could probably mitigate a lot of the complaining if you give people a week or so's advanced notice on the blog, so store owners etc. have some time to prepare new images before the changes roll out. @Torley: Super! A word of warning — if you change them to make them more consistent, it will break existing content. You’ll get a lot of people complaining for about a week, and then everyone will forget about it. But sometimes you have to break a crooked bone to make an omelet. Or something like that.

You could probably mitigate a lot of the complaining if you give people a week or so’s advanced notice on the blog, so store owners etc. have some time to prepare new images before the changes roll out.

]]> By: Torley http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Torley Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:24:57 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-715 Here's my own approximations of some of these aspect ratios (I was letting James Linden know about it today, he agrees they should be more consistent): -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- All of these aspect ratios were measured at UI size = 1.000: * Search > All for "Classifieds", "People", and "Places" - 4:3 (256x192 pixels) * Search > Places and Classified tabs - ~7:5 (398x282 pixels) * Search > Land tab - ~7:5 (358x252 pixels) * Profile > 2nd Life tab - ~4:3 (178x133 pixels) * Profile > Picks tab - ~16:9 (288x162 pixels) * Profile > 1st Life tab - 1:1 (133x133 pixels) * Profile > Classifieds tab - ~3:2 (206x137 pixels) * About Land > Options tab - ~3:2 (178x117 pixels) * Group Information > General tab's "Group Insignia" - 1:1 (126x126 pixels) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Here’s my own approximations of some of these aspect ratios (I was letting James Linden know about it today, he agrees they should be more consistent):

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All of these aspect ratios were measured at UI size = 1.000:

* Search > All for “Classifieds”, “People”, and “Places” – 4:3 (256×192 pixels)
* Search > Places and Classified tabs – ~7:5 (398×282 pixels)
* Search > Land tab – ~7:5 (358×252 pixels)

* Profile > 2nd Life tab – ~4:3 (178×133 pixels)
* Profile > Picks tab – ~16:9 (288×162 pixels)
* Profile > 1st Life tab – 1:1 (133×133 pixels)
* Profile > Classifieds tab – ~3:2 (206×137 pixels)

* About Land > Options tab – ~3:2 (178×117 pixels)

* Group Information > General tab’s “Group Insignia” – 1:1 (126×126 pixels)
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]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Jacek Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:40:20 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-714 I've changed 40:28 to 10:7 as per Lex's suggestion. (Although properly, the ratio is more like 4000:2823. It's really crazy.) I also double checked some other numbers, and saw that About Landmark displays as that weird 10:7 ratio. At least it's consistent with Search. Unfortunately, there's still the mis-match between parcel snapshots (10:7) and picks (16:9) — which is problematic, because new picks use the parcel snapshot by default, stretching it. :( I’ve changed 40:28 to 10:7 as per Lex’s suggestion. (Although properly, the ratio is more like 4000:2823. It’s really crazy.)

I also double checked some other numbers, and saw that About Landmark displays as that weird 10:7 ratio. At least it’s consistent with Search.

Unfortunately, there’s still the mis-match between parcel snapshots (10:7) and picks (16:9) — which is problematic, because new picks use the parcel snapshot by default, stretching it. :(

]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Jacek Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:15:20 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-713 Good catch, Torley and Ordinal. Confirmed that the Profile Picks Pics (say that 10 times fast) are displayed at 16:9. *scurries to update the guide* Good catch, Torley and Ordinal. Confirmed that the Profile Picks Pics (say that 10 times fast) are displayed at 16:9. *scurries to update the guide*

]]> By: Lex Neva http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-712 Lex Neva Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:53:24 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-712 Whoa, I knew things were freaky, but I didn't realize they were that freaky. 7:4 for picks?! What the heck? One note: 40:28 = 10:7... which, while it's a little more reasonable sounding, is still pretty wonky. Whoa, I knew things were freaky, but I didn’t realize they were that freaky. 7:4 for picks?! What the heck?

One note: 40:28 = 10:7… which, while it’s a little more reasonable sounding, is still pretty wonky.

]]> By: Torley http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Torley Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:36:26 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-711 I had a closer look and “Profile Picks” appears to be closer to 16:9, which Ordinal Malaprop noted as well — https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-398 . Can you please double-check? :)

]]> By: Torley http://tentacolor.com/2007/12/01/jaceks-guide-to-aspect-ratios/comment-page-1/#comment-709 Torley Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:10:09 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=193#comment-709 Oh gosh, HANDY ALERT! I was looking for something like this to pass along to folks who asked (it's a righteous curiosity)... and look what you've done! Thanx Jacek. (That 40:28 aspect ratio is weeeeird.) Oh gosh, HANDY ALERT! I was looking for something like this to pass along to folks who asked (it’s a righteous curiosity)… and look what you’ve done! Thanx Jacek. (That 40:28 aspect ratio is weeeeird.)

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