[Design][Proposal] Lozenge shape

Davor Cubranic cubranic at cs.ubc.ca
Sun Apr 30 15:32:27 PDT 2006


Mimi Yin wrote:
> Believe it or not, Priscilla and I have done another pass at the 
> Tentative event status.
>
> Tentative Event 5 (Thur @5PM) as seen in the Scooby demo, adds a 
> dotted outline around the entire lozenge. We played around with this 
> idea back in January, but I wasn't sure if the effect was too subtle. 
> And I feel like anything more obvious (e.g. 2 pixel dotted line 
> instead of a 1 pixel dotted outline) would be too noisy.
I think a 1-pixel outline looks too much like "selection" in some 
applications. But 2-pixel outline would look a bit too jagged because it 
alternates colour and white pixels. Maybe a similarly visible but more 
pleasing effect would be to make this outline fuzzier by playing with 
the colours and their saturation?

Davor


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