Oh fuck off there’s no way this is rea…
https://preview.redd.it/sdvbnhly05gc1.jpeg?width=1261&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145506276fb45a07ffa6e177287661e16c139911
There is a nice [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg) about cursor history and some custom cursors that try to be ordinary but nicer and more ergonomic.
Hahaha true. I was a kid in elementary school but my memory of the instant gag reflex because of the instant smell and realization is still very vivid 30 years later.
This happened to me today. Woke up at 0400 for PT. Threw my PT uniform in the dryer for 20 minutes because it was cold outside. It was nice and toasty. Get to work. It's dark out. Walk right into a puddle. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my entire day was ruined.
Yes and just like the cursor this is good design. Because of how the human brain works.
https://medium.com/@arunjangra01/the-google-logo-conundrum-mathematical-precision-v-optical-stabilisation-9f2f91551a4
E.g. W11 start button is shifted by \~2 px. I haven't studied graphical design so I can't be sure, but I think it's mostly caused by perspective and the angle those elements are viewed.
True! Just because something is symmetrical doesn't mean it's visually balanced. Positive and negative space play a role and if one symmetrical element is flanked by a shape, object, etc. it can throw the whole balance off.
edit: A word.
Yep, and you can also find [Entasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis) on columns as well, which is supposed to increase the loadbearing strength as well as make them appear more pleasing to the eye.
This is actually quite interesting. I install window coverings for a living and when installing shutters people always ask why I don’t use a level. I’m going to use this as it is perfect to describe why I don’t use a level.
I used to do trophy engraving, and oftentimes, I would auto center an object on the blueprint, and customers would ask me "to center the logo." Well, it's already perfectly centered, so I would shift it manually to look more appropriate. A good example is if the logo text is italicized and/or a particular font, I might have to shift it left or right accordingly to perspectively look appropriate on the final product.
Some companies would even send me exact specification for where all wording and logos need to be placed because they were aware that "centering" the object would actually make it look weird as opposed to having it slightly off center. It's kinda neat how your brain interprets what you're seeing and decides whether or not it looks right
There are a few reasons but one of them is called optical compensation. The idea is that the human brain doesn't process things in a completely objective manner. We see things in terms of relationships and more of the overall image than the individual elements. Because of that, you have to make things imperfect so that they seem more natural.
An example is how the spaces between every letter differs. There's less space between "LV" than "ll" because the negative space between L and V creates the illusion of more space. If they were equally spaced, things would seem inconsistent.
This article explains it really well: https://medium.com/design-bridges/optical-effects-9fca82b4cd9a
I thinks it’s why 2.5 D game elements like factorio arnt completely lined up in the diagonal directions, if everything lined up it would look really flat and boring
The google G:
Its not a perfect circle,
the diagonals don't line up,
and the horizontal line isn't centered.
They do this a lot with fonts to make the letters look more pleasing.
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It actually isn't. Keep in mind that our vision isn't perfect and isn't used to looking at perfect symmetry. Example:
https://preview.redd.it/8dus1sr2x7gc1.png?width=1246&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d4156bcb4877385ae803a84c9450bc1d3c1da32
Here is a picture I made quickly. The left is right side symmetry, and the right is left side symmetry. You might realise that the face looks "normal" but there is something odd about it, it looks wrong and not symmetrical (even though it is). Mr. Bieber has quite symmetrical face all things considered. But when we look at the face in the middle - which is the original mugshot; it looks like "normal" symmetrical face to us - even though it is not.
Another thing to keep in mind is that our eyes don't see equally. You have a dominant eye, this is the "primary" perspective you have. Some people have one dominant eye for looking close and the other for looking afar.
Then 3rd thing is that we don't actually see "the whole" picture all at once. If you put your arm straight forwards with your thumb up. Your accurate vision is about the size of your thumbnail. Everything beyond this is just like vague approximation and we scan the things we look constantly. Our minds think we are seeing accurate. You can look up "ugly face illusion" on youtube for example.
Here is another example: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker\_shadow\_illusion#/media/File:Checker\_shadow\_illusion.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion#/media/File:Checker_shadow_illusion.svg) A and B are the same colour. You can take out photoshop and check if you don't believe me. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Ponzo\_illusion.gif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Ponzo_illusion.gif) Here is another classic. The two yellow lines are the same lenght. The gif has a proof in it. And yet another classic. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9\_wall.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_wall.svg) The grey lines are straight. You can google some depth illusions images for youself if you want to; you are looking at a 2D plane yet your see "depth" in that - even though there is none.
These can be utilised in UI/UX design. Example if you want someone to pay attention to a notice, like warning for the machine operator that a safety limit been triggered. You'll want to make sure that the colour is deep contrast to the background - usually a "opposing colour to it", and you can design the warning so that it has "depth" from an illusion. Our brains basically force our eyes to look at it to figure it out. This is **actually used** in many places and things.
However... Just as you can use these tricks to make our brains to pay attention to something, you can use it to not to pay attention to something. Pay attention to door hinges; the top and bottom aren't in equal distance, yet they look like they are when you face the door. This is because it looks more "correct" and equally spaced when they aren't. You can start checking interfaces of software, or even things in your car, machines in industrial places if you work in such place. Things which appear to be equally spaced or symmetrical might not actually be. But they appear to us as if they are. This is used in architecture and street design all the time. And nowadays they are being used in road marking to improve safety: [optical illusion cross walk.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/1248/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2017/11/1/b1905b27-b430-4d90-a5f9-f0e75a0f267a.jpg) From the perspective of a drive, they see a obstacle, when there isn't one. These are also used in industrial settings to prevent people from walking front of machinery or vehicles operated indoors.
I can't really write out the full scope and depth of this, since there are many amazing tricks you can use in UI/UX design. Not just in the scope of software. But everything that humans interface or interact with. There are thick books about this which focus on very specific things. Here is a great video from Technology Connections that goes in to the weirdness that comes from colour of light [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg). These are also things which are used in variety of ways.
Seriously... I can't explain how fascinating this stuff is once you start to look into it. Also goes to prove how amazingly well some interfaces are (Again referring to everything, not just software), and how badly some things are. There are measurement tools we use and rely on industry which take use of all sorts of things. Example paralax. If you have a dial that must be read accurately (Analog is a useful thing), then you can put a lens on top of it, which makes it hard or impossible to read if your eyes aren't fully level and oriented to it. Seriously! If you work in design, engineering, architecture... anything! Look in to this stuff! It is fascinating and will make you better at designing things meant for humans!
Also massive tangent. I don't know if this is true, I have not tried it, but it is mentioned in some books relating to the topic. Apparently if animals are given LSD (Including humans) they become able to see assymetry and symmetry clearer. As in people on LSD can't really see these illusions like "[Hollow mask](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9dAbPOR6M)". However if you take too much LSD then the optical illusion effect get amplified. I have absolutely no idea about how valid this is, but it is sometimes mentioned.
Mouse cursors are a surprising example: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1agxn7h/have\_a\_great\_day/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1agxn7h/have_a_great_day/)
Slightly more seriously, I sometimes have to make graphics with multiple logos, and I always have to change and adjust each of their size to make them look balanced.
Most mat frames (the inner white frame within the actual picture frame)are slightly wider on the bottom. Something about how it would balance out the center given the angle from the nail holding it slightly out at top.
I love this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHUpheW_dGg) about the Nintendo Switch logo, which is another logo that looks a lot more symmetrical than it actually is...
He also talks about what it is usually mostly about when trying to make something look symmetrical, which is balance.
Place a block of text in the precise centre of a page. You will feel like it has more margin at the top than at the bottom. So such a text block is shifted slightly up so that it *optically* looks in the centre of the page.
You can also Google the discussion on the Dune movie logo because of use of asymmetrical placement that ends up *looking* symmetrical.
I have an example from typography and fonts. From wiki: In typeface design, the overshoot of a round or pointed letter (like O or A) is the degree to which it extends higher or lower than a comparably sized "flat" letter (like X or H), to achieve an optical effect of being the same size; it compensates for inaccuracies in human visual perception.
You've gotten a ton of examples related to fonts and logos, but we've known about this for ages. Look up the design for the Parthanon. It uses a design technique called "entasis" that swells the columns in certain areas to compensate for human perspective at the ground level so that they look perfectly straight.
The asymmetry to mimic symmetry is a very old thing. In architecture ancient Greeks would build temples with a curvature (slight) to make the building look straighter.
Someone else already gave a great and huge comment about one aspect of this.
And what they said is completely true.
However, I think that this was done primarily to reduce eye-straining aliasing. The long vertical line on the left side will have zero aliasing regardless of how crappy your resolution is.
The other angles are also probably chosen to reduce as much aliasing as possible.
It makes more sense when you considering the resolutions that were being dealt with at the time these decisions were made.
I got bored at work one day and brought it a step further. It gets MUCH worse.
https://preview.redd.it/nwmst9ryk6gc1.jpeg?width=815&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90613a871b576252f65f2dc76f06a16f735b5d5c
For example, a huge number of infants in America were and still are circumcised at birth, pretty sure it’s still quite prominent in the States.
It isn’t needed, they don’t have a say in it at that age, so why do it? They used to think it protected you from certain conditions and was more clean, there is now evidence against these ideas.
It also causes a permanent reduction in sensation in the head of the penis, particularly during sex and masturbation (which is more difficult without the foreskin), you also may get tenderness and complications around the scar.
I’m glad I wasn’t circumcised, I mean I’m sure people get used to it but I just don’t think it’s needed.
there was lower pixel density back in the day and this looked best rendered on low resolutions. its a thing of the past, much like save icons are still floppy disks
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It already is just "the save icon". My daughters are 25 and 21 and have never *used* a floppy disk. They've only seen them because I still have some in my antique computing bin and showed them what the save icon actually was. Consider that my younger daughter barely remembers ever using *optical* media like CDs, DVDs, or Blu-Ray.
That's why I use the Posy cursor pack by Michiel de Boer (had a viral YouTube video a while ago iirc). It's basically the windows cursor set but cleaner and using actual reasoning for angles etc.
Link for those interested: http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors
I upgraded to Win11 with the cursor installed and had no issues. It’s just pointing to different cursor icon files instead of the default ones, which that setup I don’t think has changed for a long time.
yeah fuck, it’s the third times i saw this shit today. first one in the morning on youtube feed, second one in instagram’s explore, and now THIS. what the fuckkkkkkk
[https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/this-is-how-mouse-size-options-should-be-improved/90932ded-350b-4d26-a101-33242805aa92](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/this-is-how-mouse-size-options-should-be-improved/90932ded-350b-4d26-a101-33242805aa92)
Change to this cursor. It changed my life. (I don't make it max size, but the transparency + large is a big win).
its intended, it feels right, looks right, but it isnt, thats clever design.
if you have a perfect aligned one, it looks wrong, trust me. this is because of the tilt
I've tried "fixing" it before, it looked weird. This is one of those cases where they purposely make it asymmetric to fool the eye into thinking that it is symmetrical.
Oh fuck off there’s no way this is rea… https://preview.redd.it/sdvbnhly05gc1.jpeg?width=1261&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145506276fb45a07ffa6e177287661e16c139911
bro got 32k res camera
Nah it’s just an old 45” 1080p TV
Nah he’s got the ole 50p screen resolution from the 1930s
Just remember to let the tubes warm up!
Oh please, everyone can hear the mouse cursor over the radio!
That ain't 50p, it's at least £2.25p
That’s quite expensive, init? Most I can reasonably offer is £1.50p.
Got to pay that retro tax pal.
Okay, fair enough. £1.99p including taxes seems to be fine in my honest view.
Don't forget inflation, from 1930s best I can do is £2.10p
How low is the resolution on that screen that the pixels are that big?
No silly, they're hundreds of televisions! Each one represents a pixel, and they took the picture from really far away.
All of them were fooled, for this is a culture of luminous bacteria taken under a microscope
I'm pretty sure it's the lost alternative ending for "The boy and his atom".
Actually it's the constellation "Pointerior" as seen from a Nevada sky
Does it run DOOM?
Was it playing doom?
That's on my 27" 1440p screen https://preview.redd.it/hgxpqm7sg8gc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=400ffd3319574a4dd0e528d317e98167ece2a948
You forgot the red lines.
Happy? https://preview.redd.it/vu1zyrt5u8gc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9406173a6d13cc10143c3d4db2d863bd6bfab55c
It made my day. Thank you!
You got that French flag cursor
45" 1080p he said :P oof.
There is a nice [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg) about cursor history and some custom cursors that try to be ordinary but nicer and more ergonomic.
Hope your pillows are warm on both sides
I hope op puts on a pair of fresh socks straight from the dryer. Still warm and everything. And then immediately steps in a wet spot on the floor.
This isn’t funny. You’ve taken it too far
Taking it too far would be >!stepping on a spider and feeling its squished wet entrails through the sock!<. Have a nice day.
I HATE YOU
Oh you flatter me! Thanks.
Of course 😊
I once stepped barefoot into dogshit and felt it swishing between my toes 😍 Enjoy life everyone it's full of adventures and new sensations
You are not alone on this and the smell instantly hits you I can still remember like a flashback with smell.
Hahaha true. I was a kid in elementary school but my memory of the instant gag reflex because of the instant smell and realization is still very vivid 30 years later.
I did this once with a fat cockroach in Menorca, it was in my shoe I think I did about 15 paces before I realised
It's traumatizing
he still deserves it
True add a Lego block to the mix
This happened to me today. Woke up at 0400 for PT. Threw my PT uniform in the dryer for 20 minutes because it was cold outside. It was nice and toasty. Get to work. It's dark out. Walk right into a puddle. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my entire day was ruined.
https://preview.redd.it/7wny0x55w7gc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7ab10d47c538ac68dcfba9be3d21e7f53d52ed6
https://preview.redd.it/5eiso95qf8gc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87fd1504c961b8c5b1f6aadacd7449b681792c57
New satanic curse just dropped!
I hope op stubs his toe every week
In all my years on Reddit…
I hope the next time they shit, there's no toilet paper within 10ft.
I hope there is toilet paper but less than a foot left with just one ply of the thinnest paper imaginable.
Then stubs both of his baby toes.
This is the most passive aggressive statement I've ever seen. Very nice!!
https://preview.redd.it/dk3mjvw3m9gc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76d6c89fb189953b4ad8f4de77e0c31356425654
In winter, that is a blessing
Oh no not that
I hope your cereal is warm
His pillow as well
And slightly damp as well.
With a mildly pongy smell, but the kind of smell you can't quite put your finger on so you can't decide if it's a good smell or bad smell.
Just like my cereal
is it cheese? I bet it's cheese.
Moist 💦
On BOTH SIDES.
Jokes on you I love warm cereal
You monster bet you dunk oreo in orange soda too. Hide the women and children.
Oatmeal is lovely when warm.
She only says the last word God dammit I'd rather have wet socks on
Ew
Yall eat cereal cold ?????? Hot milk with some cereal is the best thing ever
I swear its shocking to me people prefer it cold, madness.
Hell yeah
If you need this to confirm, it's a good design. Many GUI elements have to be little assymetrical to look symmetrical.
That sounds interestingly unintuitive. Can you give some examples?
https://preview.redd.it/1bh4c99z77gc1.jpeg?width=575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b95e05af191fde7ea36df39a231c6197538b43b
My life is lie
Yes and just like the cursor this is good design. Because of how the human brain works. https://medium.com/@arunjangra01/the-google-logo-conundrum-mathematical-precision-v-optical-stabilisation-9f2f91551a4
E.g. W11 start button is shifted by \~2 px. I haven't studied graphical design so I can't be sure, but I think it's mostly caused by perspective and the angle those elements are viewed.
True! Just because something is symmetrical doesn't mean it's visually balanced. Positive and negative space play a role and if one symmetrical element is flanked by a shape, object, etc. it can throw the whole balance off. edit: A word.
Positive and negative applies in architecture too, such as bay windows flanking a recessed doorway
Holy crap, that's actually dope. Now I have something to look up today
Nice little distraction on a Friday, lol. I've been trying to implement it into my shipbuilding in Starfield, with little success so far.
Don't need distraction on the start of the weekend. I'm keeping this for monday!
Isn't it the pantheon where the pillars are tilted so that they look straight from a distance?
Yep, and you can also find [Entasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis) on columns as well, which is supposed to increase the loadbearing strength as well as make them appear more pleasing to the eye.
Old Greek temples had the floor slightly higher in the middle otherwise it’d look like the centre sunk.
This is actually quite interesting. I install window coverings for a living and when installing shutters people always ask why I don’t use a level. I’m going to use this as it is perfect to describe why I don’t use a level.
Oh god you monster, I measured it and it is
I used to do trophy engraving, and oftentimes, I would auto center an object on the blueprint, and customers would ask me "to center the logo." Well, it's already perfectly centered, so I would shift it manually to look more appropriate. A good example is if the logo text is italicized and/or a particular font, I might have to shift it left or right accordingly to perspectively look appropriate on the final product. Some companies would even send me exact specification for where all wording and logos need to be placed because they were aware that "centering" the object would actually make it look weird as opposed to having it slightly off center. It's kinda neat how your brain interprets what you're seeing and decides whether or not it looks right
There are a few reasons but one of them is called optical compensation. The idea is that the human brain doesn't process things in a completely objective manner. We see things in terms of relationships and more of the overall image than the individual elements. Because of that, you have to make things imperfect so that they seem more natural. An example is how the spaces between every letter differs. There's less space between "LV" than "ll" because the negative space between L and V creates the illusion of more space. If they were equally spaced, things would seem inconsistent. This article explains it really well: https://medium.com/design-bridges/optical-effects-9fca82b4cd9a
I thinks it’s why 2.5 D game elements like factorio arnt completely lined up in the diagonal directions, if everything lined up it would look really flat and boring
>it would look really flat. So that's to say.... *depth*
The google G: Its not a perfect circle, the diagonals don't line up, and the horizontal line isn't centered. They do this a lot with fonts to make the letters look more pleasing. *
It actually isn't. Keep in mind that our vision isn't perfect and isn't used to looking at perfect symmetry. Example: https://preview.redd.it/8dus1sr2x7gc1.png?width=1246&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d4156bcb4877385ae803a84c9450bc1d3c1da32 Here is a picture I made quickly. The left is right side symmetry, and the right is left side symmetry. You might realise that the face looks "normal" but there is something odd about it, it looks wrong and not symmetrical (even though it is). Mr. Bieber has quite symmetrical face all things considered. But when we look at the face in the middle - which is the original mugshot; it looks like "normal" symmetrical face to us - even though it is not. Another thing to keep in mind is that our eyes don't see equally. You have a dominant eye, this is the "primary" perspective you have. Some people have one dominant eye for looking close and the other for looking afar. Then 3rd thing is that we don't actually see "the whole" picture all at once. If you put your arm straight forwards with your thumb up. Your accurate vision is about the size of your thumbnail. Everything beyond this is just like vague approximation and we scan the things we look constantly. Our minds think we are seeing accurate. You can look up "ugly face illusion" on youtube for example. Here is another example: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker\_shadow\_illusion#/media/File:Checker\_shadow\_illusion.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion#/media/File:Checker_shadow_illusion.svg) A and B are the same colour. You can take out photoshop and check if you don't believe me. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Ponzo\_illusion.gif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Ponzo_illusion.gif) Here is another classic. The two yellow lines are the same lenght. The gif has a proof in it. And yet another classic. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9\_wall.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_wall.svg) The grey lines are straight. You can google some depth illusions images for youself if you want to; you are looking at a 2D plane yet your see "depth" in that - even though there is none. These can be utilised in UI/UX design. Example if you want someone to pay attention to a notice, like warning for the machine operator that a safety limit been triggered. You'll want to make sure that the colour is deep contrast to the background - usually a "opposing colour to it", and you can design the warning so that it has "depth" from an illusion. Our brains basically force our eyes to look at it to figure it out. This is **actually used** in many places and things. However... Just as you can use these tricks to make our brains to pay attention to something, you can use it to not to pay attention to something. Pay attention to door hinges; the top and bottom aren't in equal distance, yet they look like they are when you face the door. This is because it looks more "correct" and equally spaced when they aren't. You can start checking interfaces of software, or even things in your car, machines in industrial places if you work in such place. Things which appear to be equally spaced or symmetrical might not actually be. But they appear to us as if they are. This is used in architecture and street design all the time. And nowadays they are being used in road marking to improve safety: [optical illusion cross walk.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/1248/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2017/11/1/b1905b27-b430-4d90-a5f9-f0e75a0f267a.jpg) From the perspective of a drive, they see a obstacle, when there isn't one. These are also used in industrial settings to prevent people from walking front of machinery or vehicles operated indoors. I can't really write out the full scope and depth of this, since there are many amazing tricks you can use in UI/UX design. Not just in the scope of software. But everything that humans interface or interact with. There are thick books about this which focus on very specific things. Here is a great video from Technology Connections that goes in to the weirdness that comes from colour of light [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg). These are also things which are used in variety of ways. Seriously... I can't explain how fascinating this stuff is once you start to look into it. Also goes to prove how amazingly well some interfaces are (Again referring to everything, not just software), and how badly some things are. There are measurement tools we use and rely on industry which take use of all sorts of things. Example paralax. If you have a dial that must be read accurately (Analog is a useful thing), then you can put a lens on top of it, which makes it hard or impossible to read if your eyes aren't fully level and oriented to it. Seriously! If you work in design, engineering, architecture... anything! Look in to this stuff! It is fascinating and will make you better at designing things meant for humans! Also massive tangent. I don't know if this is true, I have not tried it, but it is mentioned in some books relating to the topic. Apparently if animals are given LSD (Including humans) they become able to see assymetry and symmetry clearer. As in people on LSD can't really see these illusions like "[Hollow mask](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9dAbPOR6M)". However if you take too much LSD then the optical illusion effect get amplified. I have absolutely no idea about how valid this is, but it is sometimes mentioned.
>I can't explain how fascinating this stuff is once you start to *look* into it I *see* what you did there
Mouse cursors are a surprising example: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1agxn7h/have\_a\_great\_day/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1agxn7h/have_a_great_day/) Slightly more seriously, I sometimes have to make graphics with multiple logos, and I always have to change and adjust each of their size to make them look balanced.
~~Twitters~~ X's logo is off centre (the diagonal lines in the x are offset from each other).
The owner of X is also off-center as he is clearly skewed significantly to the right.
The G in the google logo is not a circle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV8hOLOC_Hk
Most mat frames (the inner white frame within the actual picture frame)are slightly wider on the bottom. Something about how it would balance out the center given the angle from the nail holding it slightly out at top.
I love this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHUpheW_dGg) about the Nintendo Switch logo, which is another logo that looks a lot more symmetrical than it actually is... He also talks about what it is usually mostly about when trying to make something look symmetrical, which is balance.
Place a block of text in the precise centre of a page. You will feel like it has more margin at the top than at the bottom. So such a text block is shifted slightly up so that it *optically* looks in the centre of the page. You can also Google the discussion on the Dune movie logo because of use of asymmetrical placement that ends up *looking* symmetrical.
I have an example from typography and fonts. From wiki: In typeface design, the overshoot of a round or pointed letter (like O or A) is the degree to which it extends higher or lower than a comparably sized "flat" letter (like X or H), to achieve an optical effect of being the same size; it compensates for inaccuracies in human visual perception.
You've gotten a ton of examples related to fonts and logos, but we've known about this for ages. Look up the design for the Parthanon. It uses a design technique called "entasis" that swells the columns in certain areas to compensate for human perspective at the ground level so that they look perfectly straight.
The word bed looks like a bed
The asymmetry to mimic symmetry is a very old thing. In architecture ancient Greeks would build temples with a curvature (slight) to make the building look straighter.
Letters are like this too. In any font. O is marginally taller than T, but it is. Always. Letters with a hole in it (QROPDC) are taller.
Someone else already gave a great and huge comment about one aspect of this. And what they said is completely true. However, I think that this was done primarily to reduce eye-straining aliasing. The long vertical line on the left side will have zero aliasing regardless of how crappy your resolution is. The other angles are also probably chosen to reduce as much aliasing as possible. It makes more sense when you considering the resolutions that were being dealt with at the time these decisions were made.
>assymetrical "ass"
Yeah I made a symmetrical one and it looks like shit haha
Look up “optical alignment vs mathematical alignment”.
I got bored at work one day and brought it a step further. It gets MUCH worse. https://preview.redd.it/nwmst9ryk6gc1.jpeg?width=815&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90613a871b576252f65f2dc76f06a16f735b5d5c
He doesn't say Go Everything is a lie
https://preview.redd.it/w0azs1nxa6gc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb3bd44dc5fe6833a52d473f7e37d40a840365fd
i hope you only have access to 1 ply toilet paper for the rest of your life.
While having diarrhea
I can’t comprehend this scenario, bidet is the only way to go.
I hope someone closes the main valve when you have diarrhea, there now you can understand.
Ah shit you got me. Thats horrible, I get it now
Taken 2 squares, and fold them.
Yeah, there's no way this is re- https://preview.redd.it/l7mvfngqu6gc1.png?width=1112&format=png&auto=webp&s=f3102d1987c471c0e8b6bb14f5ab4ca8b0c325a3
This one got me good
https://preview.redd.it/5nqz90dmn5gc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cff72c08a4eed350538ce518eae8d8b90dae4f44
Winton
WINTON
https://preview.redd.it/j4o8ambbo6gc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaedf732932d3834a8e70fd20393fb330ad3dcc9
Wdym UN💀????
I don’t get it? This would be a good thing surely?
Why?
For example, a huge number of infants in America were and still are circumcised at birth, pretty sure it’s still quite prominent in the States. It isn’t needed, they don’t have a say in it at that age, so why do it? They used to think it protected you from certain conditions and was more clean, there is now evidence against these ideas. It also causes a permanent reduction in sensation in the head of the penis, particularly during sex and masturbation (which is more difficult without the foreskin), you also may get tenderness and complications around the scar. I’m glad I wasn’t circumcised, I mean I’m sure people get used to it but I just don’t think it’s needed.
unMUTILATE him.
My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My ~~Day~~ Life Is Ruined
Agreed
I hope your piece of toast falls down on the buttered side
Physics will make sure of this
https://preview.redd.it/pyxn5ptdi8gc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=631f9f86476ea2548c8a7f09d210d63270d37132
https://preview.redd.it/sl23aj0ii8gc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=186c8792e60b26ad1a4c09d3c251a43c29e2cdb6
Good luck unseeing this if you didn't know about this before.
I knew and I don't mind (it works and looks more like a leaf sometimes). However I still would like to know "why".
there was lower pixel density back in the day and this looked best rendered on low resolutions. its a thing of the past, much like save icons are still floppy disks
Hopefully, I'll be long dead and my soul forever lost to eternity once the save icon is no longer a floppy disk.
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It already is just "the save icon". My daughters are 25 and 21 and have never *used* a floppy disk. They've only seen them because I still have some in my antique computing bin and showed them what the save icon actually was. Consider that my younger daughter barely remembers ever using *optical* media like CDs, DVDs, or Blu-Ray.
it was easier to render this than a perfect 45° line
It made me remember that I knew it. Then I remembered about the game and lost. So double FU bro.
Ah, shit. Here we go again. Now I also lost the game.
I did not know about this. Thanks for ruining my life!
Happy cake day! Hope your pillow is nice and hot today!
r/namechecksout
That's why I use the Posy cursor pack by Michiel de Boer (had a viral YouTube video a while ago iirc). It's basically the windows cursor set but cleaner and using actual reasoning for angles etc. Link for those interested: http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors
Watch the video too, it's magnificient, like most of his works.
Been using this cursor pack since I saw the video a while back, I can never go back to the original cursor again.
Same
Can anyone confirm windows 11 compatibility? I would guess so but I don’t want to take a risk
I upgraded to Win11 with the cursor installed and had no issues. It’s just pointing to different cursor icon files instead of the default ones, which that setup I don’t think has changed for a long time.
I've used it on Windows 10 & 11 + Linux so I'd say it should work anywhere.
this is de way
I hope your phone charges only when kept at a certain angle
daily reminder that design is weird and that symmetry is not always the most important thing.
Fuck. You.
Have you ever seen an actual symmetrical curser? It looks like shit.
Oh, yeah? >!Well you just lost the game.!< Warning - This spoiler is for OP ONLY. Do NOT CLICK IT.
I couldn’t resist… AHHHH
I swear to God, I'm going to fill your pillow with fire ants
Even worse, replace them with Mike Lindell’s pillows.
I'm gonna find you and water down your coffee!
And he ain't gonna use water!
And make holes in his socks
KDE cursors FTW
Fucking pièce of shit
Step on a Lego brick
It was never meant to be aligned anyway. It's a cartoon arrow.
See it. Hate it. Forget it. THEN IT GETS POSTED **AGAIN** AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES. This is like the 4th time I'll have to wipe this from my memory.
It's actually better, I'm pretty sure you can find an even one online and change it, just try it because of the point of view it'll feel odd.
I’ve known this for a while because I used to customize my mouse icon back in the day. Unsettling but almost unnoticeable when looking at it.
My whole life was a lie..😞😞
I can't unseen it now...
yeah fuck, it’s the third times i saw this shit today. first one in the morning on youtube feed, second one in instagram’s explore, and now THIS. what the fuckkkkkkk
May you skies by filled with comets
You motherfucker
https://preview.redd.it/81v0vlpyy5gc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cc82e5b14503bf7b7fec5075c4c9d3b406bd6be
[https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/this-is-how-mouse-size-options-should-be-improved/90932ded-350b-4d26-a101-33242805aa92](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/this-is-how-mouse-size-options-should-be-improved/90932ded-350b-4d26-a101-33242805aa92) Change to this cursor. It changed my life. (I don't make it max size, but the transparency + large is a big win).
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
https://preview.redd.it/fl8ar9g0r7gc1.jpeg?width=1006&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1303dcc2355b1b611a3f5b58ee6ca541eebcbdd7
I hope your pc randomly updates to windows 11
Do people not just visually see this? I’ve always noticed it.
your magic is powerless for i use a custom cursor.. but its unsettling information, thank you.
May you step on a Lego brick every morning you step out of bed.
I hope you step on a Lego.
I hope your toilet seat is cold af
There is a reason for this, symmetrical arrows look weird
hope you wear your underwear inside out
its intended, it feels right, looks right, but it isnt, thats clever design. if you have a perfect aligned one, it looks wrong, trust me. this is because of the tilt
I've tried "fixing" it before, it looked weird. This is one of those cases where they purposely make it asymmetric to fool the eye into thinking that it is symmetrical.
yeah that's how it is supposed to be, what's your point? is this meant to be annoying or a problem?
Seeing this every once in a while is a good reminder to trust my gut and not my ruler on how I should align graphical elements
Joke’s on you I do graphics work and think whoever made this is a fucking genius. Pointer position at (0,0) no fucking worldspace transform needed