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

[Adam Fraser]

Another idea would be to design the dialog in a way that it can use a
rotation of images.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Kevin W Eliceiri <eliceiri at wisc.edu> wrote:

> 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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