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  1. You know the trope about "when you're in the know about something, you see every example of that something which is bad, and you feel bad"?

    Like "teach someone typography, and they will examples of it done wrong every day", that sort of thing.

    Well, one of the things I have knowledge about and experience with is cinematography - film & video. And here's one I run into regularly.

    I watch an online video.

    On my 16:10 monitor.

    The browser letterboxes it into a 16:9 area of the screen.

    It's some bloody stupid video site with vertical video, so it's 1:2 (or even worse), pillarboxed into the browser viewport.

    And then the video maker is commenting about another video, so it's a 16:9 letterboxed into a tiny section of the pillarboxed video, with enormous borders on the top and bottom.

    This hurts my head, even without considering that it results in trying to watch a video that takes up about 5% of the screen.

    #letterbox #pillarbox #video #aspect #AspectRatio #VerticalVideo #argh #aargh #TeachAManToFish

  2. You know the trope about "when you're in the know about something, you see every example of that something which is bad, and you feel bad"?

    Like "teach someone typography, and they will examples of it done wrong every day", that sort of thing.

    Well, one of the things I have knowledge about and experience with is cinematography - film & video. And here's one I run into regularly.

    I watch an online video.

    On my 16:10 monitor.

    The browser letterboxes it into a 16:9 area of the screen.

    It's some bloody stupid video site with vertical video, so it's 1:2 (or even worse), pillarboxed into the browser viewport.

    And then the video maker is commenting about another video, so it's a 16:9 letterboxed into a tiny section of the pillarboxed video, with enormous borders on the top and bottom.

    This hurts my head, even without considering that it results in trying to watch a video that takes up about 5% of the screen.

    #letterbox #pillarbox #video #aspect #AspectRatio #VerticalVideo #argh #aargh #TeachAManToFish

  3. My 2 cents to the discussion about #Apple‘s upcoming #foldable #iPhone and #foldablePhones in general.

    In terms of #aspectRatio, there is what I consider a perfect one. That’s the one where the ratio doesn’t change when you fold it.

    a:b=b:2a
    a:b=square root 2

    In Germany we are used to it because #DIN standardized the An paper format. Those nerds even made it so that A0 has the area of 1 square meter.

  4. For decades I am bullied for pointing out people's wrong #aspectratio settings.

    They don't even UNDERSTAND what's wrong in stretching the first seasons of X-Files to all corners of their 16:9 smarty pants TV. They just don't SEE it.

    So nowadays I just trick them out of the room, fix their settings and appreciate their nice TV when they return with my coffee.

  5. For decades I am bullied for pointing out people's wrong #aspectratio settings.

    They don't even UNDERSTAND what's wrong in stretching the first seasons of X-Files to all corners of their 16:9 smarty pants TV. They just don't SEE it.

    So nowadays I just trick them out of the room, fix their settings and appreciate their nice TV when they return with my coffee.

  6. #MortalKombat uses the same wrong #aspectratio as the original #Atari Karate cartridge from Froggo Games.

    And you KNOW it!

    #RetroGaming

  7. #MortalKombat uses the same wrong #aspectratio as the original #Atari Karate cartridge from Froggo Games.

    And you KNOW it!

    #RetroGaming

  8. Differentiating between shear walls and columns is crucial in structural design, especially when their geometries overlap. While both elements transfer loads, their behavior under stress, reinforcement requirements, and design criteria vary significantly. #ShearWall #Structuralengineering #ColumnDesign #AspectRatio

    archup.net/shear-wall-vs-colum

  9. Max props to @scottjehl whose 2023 article (about his 2023 #Firefox contribution!) inspired my own experiments in variable #aspectRatio, #HLS, (mostly) vanilla #HTML web #video

    This was fun:

    danq.me/variable-aspect-hls-vi

  10. Max props to @scottjehl whose 2023 article (about his 2023 #Firefox contribution!) inspired my own experiments in variable #aspectRatio, #HLS, (mostly) vanilla #HTML web #video

    This was fun:

    danq.me/variable-aspect-hls-vi

  11. Always when I see YouTube videos about #cinematography, #aspectratio and how #Cinemascope / #widescreen is a "problem" for framing just the face of a person, because of all the "empty dead room", I just wish that these dudes would watch "The Ipcress File" at some point ...

    #filmmaking

  12. #tinyCSStip

    Pretty sure I've posted about this before, but a quick search at the morning hours didn't find it, plus I saw someone ask about it yet again¹, so... fixed aspect-ratio box within variable size container!

    Live on @codepen codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/ogv

    ¹here reddit.com/r/css/comments/1hhf

    #CSS #aspectRatio #code #coding #web #frontend #dev #webDevelopment #webDev #containerQuery #containerQueryUnits #container

  13. #tinyCSStip

    Pretty sure I've posted about this before, but a quick search at the morning hours didn't find it, plus I saw someone ask about it yet again¹, so... fixed aspect-ratio box within variable size container!

    Live on @codepen codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/ogv

    ¹here reddit.com/r/css/comments/1hhf

    #CSS #aspectRatio #code #coding #web #frontend #dev #webDevelopment #webDev #containerQuery #containerQueryUnits #container

  14. Черт тебя возьми, CSS. Часть 3

    Привет, Хабр. Я продолжаю делиться «косяками» CSS, которые могут сбить нас с толку. Мне не нравится, что многие плюются от него. Конечно, не без оснований. Я их понимаю, потому что тоже плевался. Только мне нравится CSS. Хоть и потратил множество часов на изучение неочевидных моментов, я не хочу, чтобы у языка была слава «костыля». Подумав, как помочь другим меньше мучиться, я собираю и объясняю неочевидности CSS. Сегодня мы рассмотрим: Нюансы работы синтаксиса of S для псевдо-класса :nth-child() ; Случаи использования свойства aspect-ratio неожиданно ломающие вёрстку; Различия между псевдо-классом lang() и селектором по атрибуту [lang=""] . Давайте посмотрим, что я вам подготовил.

    habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

    #css #aspectratio #ruvds_статьи

  15. I recently told my fifteen year old that early DVDs often came with different versions on each side. I told him one side was labelled "fullscreen" and asked him to guess what the other side was.

    The correct answer is of course #Widescreen because 4:3 filled the screen even though it wasn't the full width of the movie.

    #Movies #DVD #AspectRatio.

  16. I recently told my fifteen year old that early DVDs often came with different versions on each side. I told him one side was labelled "fullscreen" and asked him to guess what the other side was.

    The correct answer is of course #Widescreen because 4:3 filled the screen even though it wasn't the full width of the movie.

    #Movies #DVD #AspectRatio.

  17. Chrome has a different behaviour from FF and Safari.

    They used be the same. I'm not sure if the spec changes or Chrome has a bug in recent releases

    codepen.io/yuanchuan/pen/bGydp

    #CSS #grid #aspectratio

  18. Chrome has a different behaviour from FF and Safari.

    They used be the same. I'm not sure if the spec changes or Chrome has a bug in recent releases

    codepen.io/yuanchuan/pen/bGydp

    #CSS #grid #aspectratio

  19. I got properly #NerdSniped last night thinking about how to create #shapes.

    A circle is easy and has a defined #circularity (1) and #AspectRatio (1), but how do you create a set of shapes with given values for these properties?

    An ellipse seems like a decent "base" shape to start with but then calculating the perimeter is not as trivial as I thought it would be.

    Here is the question that started it if anyone is interested in chiming in:
    forum.image.sc/t/free-shape-ge
    #Maths #Geometry #Mathstodon