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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. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. #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

  7. 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.

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

    And you KNOW it!

    #RetroGaming

  9. 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

  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. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. How Netflix’s Award-Winning ‘Train Dreams’ Was Shot to Look Like Beautiful Old Photos

    Based on the novella of the same name, Netflix’s new film “Train Dreams” is shot to look like…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Movies #arri #arrialexa35 #aspectratio #cameratech #cinematography #Entertainment #Film #filmmaking #movie #naturelight #Netflix
    newsbeep.com/us/337565/

  17. How Netflix’s Award-Winning ‘Train Dreams’ Was Shot to Look Like Beautiful Old Photos

    Based on the novella of the same name, Netflix’s new film “Train Dreams” is shot to look like…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Movies #arri #arrialexa35 #aspectratio #cameratech #cinematography #Entertainment #Film #filmmaking #movie #naturelight #Netflix
    newsbeep.com/us/337565/

  18. "It’s rare to see 35mm prints of anything these days (let alone 70mm). If the options are there, you likely won’t regret seeing Oppenheimer on actual film, whether it be 70mm or 35mm."

    Croppenheimer

    avclub.com/your-last-minute-gu via AV Club
    Image: Universal/ Syncopy/IMAX via AV Club
    #Oppenheimmer #OppenheimerMovie #AspectRatios #AspectRatio #Movies #Film #Cinema #Hollywood #Croppenheimer

  19. Todays DOS gaming basics: Aspect ratios!

    Thanks to #DisplacedGamers for doing a video about the examination of the 4:3 aspect ratio of DOS gaming - primarily VGA Mode 13h and 320x200 - why it is not a widescreen aspect ratio despite all of the examples across the web.

    youtube.com/watch?v=YvckyWxHAI

    At DOSBox Staging there are big improvements coming regarding aspect ratios!

    - Screenshots will be always aspect ratio corrected by default in the next version.

    - "Pixel Perfect" mode is removed and replaced by 'integer_scaling'

    off: No integer scaling constraint; the aspect ratio correct image fills the viewport (default).

    horizontal: Constrain the horizontal scaling factor to integer values within the viewport.

    vertical: Constrain the vertical scaling factor to integer values within the viewport.

    The most important thing to remember: DOSBox Staging provides an optimal experience out of the box, most of the time!

    #dosbox #dosgaming #msdos #emulation #retrogaming #linuxgaming #macgaming #foss #aspectratio #320x200 #VGA