[cairo] Playing around with a QX3 microscope, smaller images

[Jon Smirl]

On 8/1/05, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Pretty impressive and educational photos.  You may want to upload
> your photos on Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia.  The
> relevant articles are:
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_rasterization

I added them to the Subpixel rendering page. I was my first entry so
it took a few tries to get it right.

> 
> Cheers
> behdad
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> > I was playing around with my QX3 microscope and took these pictures of
> > subpixel shading. You can see that it really works
> >
> > It took me a few seconds to figure out that everything was ok. It is
> > blue to the right of the black in the glyph pictures. Since I have an
> > RGB display I though that you would want to light the red pixel, not
> > the blue one. Then it dawned on me that the text is black and the
> > outside is white so you need to do it the other way around.
> >
> > It was pretty touchy shooting the pictures, everything has to aligned
> > and illuminated just right or everything is blurry or blooms.
> >
> > I did this because I couldn't figure out why my fonts didn't look
> > right in kdevelop. Now I know that you have to enable subpixel text in
> > both the Gnome and KDE control panels.
> >
> > Owen, I don't have a blog, want to make an entry out of these in yours?
> >
> > --
> > Jon Smirl
> > jonsmirl at gmail.com
> >
> 
> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/
> 


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Jon Smirl
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