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.
Seen by 37signals on September 30 2009. There are 18 comments.
Herraro G. 30 Sep 09
I don’t get it.
Lascar Anderssen 30 Sep 09
So what do you guys think about Google Wave? Wouldn’t it do this and 100 other things?
Tom H 30 Sep 09
I 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' 30 Sep 09
Hey 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 30 Sep 09
Reminds of way back when facebook introduced images and videos in their comments. I personally think it cheapens the interface a little.
Brian Pan 30 Sep 09
SvN has a different logo font (on this page) than the company logo?!
Tobin Harris 30 Sep 09
I 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 30 Sep 09
Good eye Brian. Wonder which (if either) is the official logo?
Gregory 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 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 30 Sep 09
@Tom H, that is amazing! I have a feeling it’s going to get a lot of attention now.
Gregory 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 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 01 Oct 09
Mad props go out to http://propaneapp.com for making Campfire rock some socks off as a chat client.
JF 01 Oct 09
We’re looking forward to checking out Wave too. We don’t have invites yet so we can’t jump in.
pht 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 01 Oct 09
@pht
jason [at] 37signals…
Anonymous Coward 01 Oct 09
@Nicolo’ Google ripped Wave off. That’s my thoughts.
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