256x256 px icons

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 9 07:26:00 GMT 2011


On Aug  8 16:28, Warren Young wrote:
> On 8/8/2011 2:43 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > If you have a way to create a C which
> >is not handdrawn *and* stands out, I would very much like to see it.
> 
> That's why I quoted Andy: increasing the stroke width can help.  By
> starting with a much thicker outer stroke, you end up with a
> brighter yet still AA'd outline.
> 
> You can also play with (x, y) placement and the sampling algorithm.
> 
> An 8 px white stroke on black scaled 256:32 (8x) will not
> necessarily end up a single 1 px white stroke on black.  Given a
> case where that happens, then shifting the line 4 px from that
> position, downsampling can give you two 50% gray lines side by side
> if the algorithm interprets the source image as having half the line
> on one side of the pixel boundary and half on the other.  Then if
> you leave the line where it is, 4 px "off" optimal for one algorithm
> but use a different sampling algorithm, you might get good results
> again.

Erm... say that again?  Here's where you're losing me.  I don't even
know how to make the stroke thicker unless it would be a big, square
block.


Corinna

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