Talk:2332: Cursed Chair - Revision history

42.book.addict at 17:51, 24 April 2024

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Z1mp0st0rz at 17:05, 24 April 2024

2024-04-24T17:05:50Z

141.101.98.96 at 18:12, 14 July 2020

2020-07-14T18:12:52Z

141.101.98.222 at 17:36, 14 July 2020

2020-07-14T17:36:21Z

Kurkosdr: Sign

2020-07-14T17:23:16Z

Sign

Kurkosdr: Comment on aliasing

2020-07-14T17:22:44Z

Comment on aliasing

Cellocgw at 10:38, 14 July 2020

2020-07-14T10:38:56Z

Orion205 at 01:32, 14 July 2020

2020-07-14T01:32:38Z

Draco18s at 01:18, 14 July 2020

2020-07-14T01:18:44Z

ProphetZarquon: BLECKBERGET or HATTEFJÄLL?

2020-07-14T00:15:42Z

BLECKBERGET or HATTEFJÄLL?

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	:You just snuck that in, while I was pondering my guess about that whole issue in (two more levels of) reply to the top Talk comment. I wouldn't consider it pixelisation if the pixels were the same size all over (for a given resolution) and also not deliberately averaged out so blocks of nn were obfuscated the same as the best available mean of that block. Randall doubtlessly downscales from his original art (at least from the x2 version of the image - if not a huger, normally unplublished, original) but normally the greyscale in 11 blocks makes it not 'look pixelated'. This time it was perhaps monochrome in the first conversion which 'aliased' it compared to how it should be.		:You just snuck that in, while I was pondering my guess about that whole issue in (two more levels of) reply to the top Talk comment. I wouldn't consider it pixelisation if the pixels were the same size all over (for a given resolution) and also not deliberately averaged out so blocks of nn were obfuscated the same as the best available mean of that block. Randall doubtlessly downscales from his original art (at least from the x2 version of the image - if not a huger, normally unplublished, original) but normally the greyscale in 11 blocks makes it not 'look pixelated'. This time it was perhaps monochrome in the first conversion which 'aliased' it compared to how it should be.
	:(Most of the xkcd .png files, last time I checked, are greyscale. There are the occasional RGB, on at least one occasion with an (unused?) Alpha channel, and I've seen an Indexed pallette (blogofractal, IIRC, so maybe similar ones that have minimal but not monochrome/monoshaded colour spaces are that too). If reduced to a single bitplane or wrongly Indexed to black+white instead of all the basic-greys, I think that was the easy to explain blunder...) ((There are also .gifs, etc, but those usually for good reason, such as animation frames.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.96\|141.101.98.96]] 18:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)		:(Most of the xkcd .png files, last time I checked, are greyscale. There are the occasional RGB, on at least one occasion with an (unused?) Alpha channel, and I've seen an Indexed pallette (blogofractal, IIRC, so maybe similar ones that have minimal but not monochrome/monoshaded colour spaces are that too). If reduced to a single bitplane or wrongly Indexed to black+white instead of all the basic-greys, I think that was the easy to explain blunder...) ((There are also .gifs, etc, but those usually for good reason, such as animation frames.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.96\|141.101.98.96]] 18:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
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	:You just snuck that in, while I was pondering my guess about that whole issue in (two more levels of) reply to the top Talk comment. I wouldn't consider it pixelisation if the pixels were the same size all over (for a given resolution) and also not deliberately averaged out so blocks of nn were obfuscated the same as the best available mean of that block. Randall doubtlessly downscales from his original art (at least from the x2 version of the image - if not a huger, normally unplublished, original) but normally the greyscale in 11 blocks makes it not 'look pixelated'. This time it was perhaps monochrome in the first conversion which 'aliased' it compared to how it should be.		:You just snuck that in, while I was pondering my guess about that whole issue in (two more levels of) reply to the top Talk comment. I wouldn't consider it pixelisation if the pixels were the same size all over (for a given resolution) and also not deliberately averaged out so blocks of nn were obfuscated the same as the best available mean of that block. Randall doubtlessly downscales from his original art (at least from the x2 version of the image - if not a huger, normally unplublished, original) but normally the greyscale in 11 blocks makes it not 'look pixelated'. This time it was perhaps monochrome in the first conversion which 'aliased' it compared to how it should be.
	:(Most of the xkcd .png files, last time I checked, are greyscale. There are the occasional RGB, on at least one occasion with an (unused?) Alpha channel, and I've seen an Indexed pallette (blogofractal, IIRC, so maybe similar ones that have minimal but not monochrome/monoshaded colour spaces are that too). If reduced to a single bitplane or wrongly Indexed to black+white instead of all the basic-greys, I think that was the easy to explain blunder...) ((There are also .gifs, etc, but those usually for good reason, such as animation frames.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.96\|141.101.98.96]] 18:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)		:(Most of the xkcd .png files, last time I checked, are greyscale. There are the occasional RGB, on at least one occasion with an (unused?) Alpha channel, and I've seen an Indexed pallette (blogofractal, IIRC, so maybe similar ones that have minimal but not monochrome/monoshaded colour spaces are that too). If reduced to a single bitplane or wrongly Indexed to black+white instead of all the basic-greys, I think that was the easy to explain blunder...) ((There are also .gifs, etc, but those usually for good reason, such as animation frames.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.96\|141.101.98.96]] 18:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
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		+	:You just snuck that in, while I was pondering my guess about that whole issue in (two more levels of) reply to the top Talk comment. I wouldn't consider it pixelisation if the pixels were the same size all over (for a given resolution) and also not deliberately averaged out so blocks of nn were obfuscated the same as the best available mean of that block. Randall doubtlessly downscales from his original art (at least from the x2 version of the image - if not a huger, normally unplublished, original) but normally the greyscale in 11 blocks makes it not 'look pixelated'. This time it was perhaps monochrome in the first conversion which 'aliased' it compared to how it should be.
		+	:(Most of the xkcd .png files, last time I checked, are greyscale. There are the occasional RGB, on at least one occasion with an (unused?) Alpha channel, and I've seen an Indexed pallette (blogofractal, IIRC, so maybe similar ones that have minimal but not monochrome/monoshaded colour spaces are that too). If reduced to a single bitplane or wrongly Indexed to black+white instead of all the basic-greys, I think that was the easy to explain blunder...) ((There are also .gifs, etc, but those usually for good reason, such as animation frames.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.96\|141.101.98.96]] 18:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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 : [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 00:15, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 :: I was hoping there was some kind of extra joke there, but I can't find it. --[[User:Draco18s|Draco18s]] ([[User talk:Draco18s|talk]]) 01:18, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 I'm pretty sure if he shops at IKEA he'd try to read one of the names and accidentally summon a demon. [[User:DanielLC|DanielLC]] ([[User talk:DanielLC|talk]]) 23:41, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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 :[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 00:15, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 I don't think I'd feel safe talking to White Hat without social distancing ''or'' face masks. [[User:Orion205|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205|talk]]) 01:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 This comic's alt-text wins "The Deepest Indirect References" award for sure.  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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 This comic's alt-text wins "The Deepest Indirect References" award for sure.  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 "extremely very pixelated with no aliasing" should be "extremely very pixelated with no anti-aliasing"
 In the original pic, I can see the aliasing effect and the ziggurat steps it creates just fine. Anti-aliasing is the thing that removes the aliasing ("pixelation") effect.

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	This comic's alt-text wins "The Deepest Indirect References" award for sure. [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 10:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)		This comic's alt-text wins "The Deepest Indirect References" award for sure. [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 10:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
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		+	"extremely very pixelated with no aliasing" should be "extremely very pixelated with no anti-aliasing"
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		+	In the original pic, I can see the aliasing effect and the ziggurat steps it creates just fine. Anti-aliasing is the thing that removes the aliasing ("pixelation") effect.

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−	I don't think I'd feel safe talking to White Hat without social distancing ''or'' face masks. [[User:Orion205\|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205\|talk]]) 01:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)	+	I don't think I'd feel safe talking to White Hat without social distancing ''or'' face masks. [[User:Orion205\|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205\|talk]]) 01:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
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		+	This comic's alt-text wins "The Deepest Indirect References" award for sure. [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 10:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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	:I'm not sure whether he's summoned a BLECKBERGET, or a HATTEFJÄLL.		:I'm not sure whether he's summoned a BLECKBERGET, or a HATTEFJÄLL.
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		+	I don't think I'd feel safe talking to White Hat without social distancing ''or'' face masks. [[User:Orion205\|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205\|talk]]) 01:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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 why so pixelated?
 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.206|162.158.34.206]] 23:06, 13 July 2020 (UTC) xkcd addict #40571
 I'm pretty sure if he shops at IKEA he'd try to read one of the names and accidentally summon a demon. [[User:DanielLC|DanielLC]] ([[User talk:DanielLC|talk]]) 23:41, 13 July 2020 (UTC)