Notices by maple "mavica" syrup [6502] (mavica_again@computerfairi.es)

how would you make something like these old aqua wallpapers? 3d rendering? vector and gradients? i'm curious what the most "period correct" way would be. for that matter, what about the icons? the tutorials on how to make "aqua-like" pill buttons always felt wrong because the shading never quite followed the contour of the shape. how were they done back then, is it all hand-painted or is there a rendering technique i don't know about?

aha! looks like they WERE in fact 3D rendered! even to the point of using a human figure as an origin point for the camera to make it look like you were actually looking at a desk top

source: https://blog.cocoia.com/2008/the-origin-of-the-inimitable-icons/

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@rennerocha @juliobiason @anna i have https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver in a linode box for hello@transbian.love which admittedly is only ever used for our threadless account so it hasn't seen heavy usage but for me it pretty much has been 15-minute set it and forget it, though if i wanted to use it more seriously i would probably take more care with it

getting around to prototyping a thing. baby steps

it's getting better

ouuhhh yeahhh UI design is my passion

putting that number input inline with the checkbox that it's tied to felt pretty good

ballin'

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it's starting to look like a Gizmo. like a Doohickey

The functionality you are looking has been kicked around in various ECMAScript proposals, however it does not appear to be coming anytime soon.

aaururrghghahauagurgh :aauugh:

oohhhhhhh buddy we're getting there

OHHHH BABY THAT'S A 16 COLOR ATKINSON

O.K. here's a very early release. only Atkinson is implemented right now and only uploading a file to serve as palette. have fun

https://netizen.club/~mavica/ditherinator

AAHHHHH i love this tool already

fixed some bugs (namely the one where a palette wouldn't load half the time) and detached the control feedback from the image processing to make moving sliders on long operations less painful at the tradeoff of not having immediate output preview

yesterday i don't think this dithering was taking a whole 3 seconds, so now i need to chase down optimizations

if for every pixel in an image i do a comprehensive color distance check for every color in a palette, a 320x240 picture takes ~3000ms

if i cache the results of the closest palette color to each color and fetch those when available instead of calculating, it takes... ~3800ms

i need to build a palette LUT on load.

YESSS yes yes LUTs to the rescue

i've made sliders automatically update the preview again

this version is now live at the previous link

i'm cheating a little bit truncating 8 bits of color into 6 bits to make the LUT manageable, but since the point of the tool is to reduce colorspace anyway it shouldn't be much of a problem