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Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

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Re: Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

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Post by serf »

gorgoiler wrote: post #26

Brilliant… and nostalgic. Windows 3’s control panel had a facility to draw tiled pixel patterns which was a simpler version of this. It was called the Pattern : https://swiat-owocow.pl/grafiki/wallpaper-win30.png

wow , I had forgotten all about that -- when I saw the sub window I was hit with some serious nostalgia.

3.x had some interesting priorities with regards to what a user may want to do, you don't realize (remember..) that in some ways the users of the past were more empowered than they are now until something like that is thrown in front of you to remember.

Re: Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

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Post by theelous3 »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #22
raldi wrote: post #20

This is delightful fun, but suffers a bit from Mystery Meat Navigation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation#Iconog... ) The pencil and eraser I get, and I thought one of the controls was Undo, but that one seems to be a toggle? And I have no idea what the last one is.

Toggles symmetry. Def not obvious.

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Re: Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

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Post by Fnoord »

felideon wrote: post #28

The creator has an interesting home page, too: https://maxbittker.com

That (the borders, when slide is not entirely to left) makes me think of Qi charging / induction.

Also I love it how you can remove parts you saw or aren't interested in. Fekt like a Google Keep kind of note taking.

Re: Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

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Post by chaboud »

serf wrote: post #32
gorgoiler wrote: post #26

Brilliant… and nostalgic. Windows 3’s control panel had a facility to draw tiled pixel patterns which was a simpler version of this. It was called the Pattern : https://swiat-owocow.pl/grafiki/wallpaper-win30.png

wow , I had forgotten all about that -- when I saw the sub window I was hit with some serious nostalgia. 3.x had some interesting priorities with regards to what a user may want to do, you don't realize (remember..) that in some ways the users of the past were more empowered than they are now until something like that is thrown in front of you to remember.

It’s probably a funny artifact of the architecture and the impracticality of image-based background on the hardware of the day that this was made available.

PatBlt() was a fast way to fill a given rectangle with a color (or xor it), but it was also a fast way to blit the pattern brush currently selected to the device context (hdc). No doubt the 2D accelerated hardware capability this was made to work with was tied up in being able to quickly scan out to the clip region while selecting the corresponding byte per line.

Win GDI was a fascinating hardware centric abstraction.

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