[ImageJ-devel] Candidates images for the "about ImageJ" dialog

[Kevin W Eliceiri]

Hi Gabriel,

These are great ideas, and we will definitely explore having some sort of rotating image to best represent the diverse use of the community. I really like that.  However that will happen later after ImageJ2 is released as non-beta and hardened in regular use. At this point we just need a few images to put in there as a place holder for the first release.


best
kevin

On 10/19/11, Gabriel Landini   wrote:
> Some ideas about the "about" image. In Fibonacci order:
> 
> 1. What about making this an open contest and advertise a bit mode widely it 
> in the IJ and Fiji lists perhaps?, rather than IJ-devel only? 
> We might otherwise be missing lots of interesting stuff. 
> Also that would it make people feel a bit more interested  in the development 
> of IJ2.
> 
> 2. Relax the theme and let's see what other images than cells people submit. 
> 
> 3. I also think that we would want to see what the images would look like at 
> the intended resolution of the about window, so I suggest the images should be 
> submitted at that size, reduced or cropped to avoid disappointment when 
> reducing them (and detail being lost) or scaling artifacts.
> Maybe this can be done in some of the wikis (the Tudor one has, I think, a 
> plugin (?) for polls that might be possible to adapt to this?).
> 
> 5. There are lots of interesting and beautiful images for which it would be 
> difficult or impossible to read any text overwritten on them, so an idea would 
> be to use the images with an artificial darkening horizontal gradient or 
> similar so the text is readable.
> 
> 8. I like the idea of various images alternating or randomly used for this, so 
> perhaps there could be a pool of sample images to choose from at run time. If 
> space is an issue, when the about samples folder is not existent or empty the 
> about window could use just a default image stored in the jar file or a blank 
> frame.
> 
> Cheers 
> Gabriel
> 
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