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

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Gabriel,

Some ideas about the "about" image.
>

I agree with all of your ideas, and have filed a ticket about it:
  http://dev.imagejdev.org/trac/imagej/ticket/841

For now I assigned it to the 2.0 final release milestone.

Regards,
Curtis


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Gabriel Landini <G.Landini at bham.ac.uk>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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