Further usplash development

Øivind Hoel oivind.hoel at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 08:43:32 CDT 2005


Andy, your splashes are _far_ better. Not necessarily because the
current splash image is ugly in itself, but because, as you say, at
that resolution and with only 16 colours, the current splash image is
just plain ugly.

Keep it simple, yet elegant.

On 8/31/05, Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> my eyes..
>  
>  the splash image is grainy and sickly.
>  
>  what a waste of 16 perfectly good colours.
>  
>  
>  to whoever made it .. "anti-aliasing  dude, not dithering " ..  
>  dithering at that resolution cannot look nice .  its an obvious compromise.
>  "you cant afford glows at 16 colours.. deal with it."
>  
>  now im not saying that the below are any better.  but we really need to
> move away from the dark terminal-like  theme.
>  
>  http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/usplash-example.png
>  http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/usplash-16-noprogress.png
>  http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/usplash-16-progress.png
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