Cool Trick
Alright. Look at the sentence below and highlight it. Make sure to include the smiley.(left click and scroll over)
Monkeys will rule the world :) .
Now look at the smily when you do this. If you did it right, I't will apper like a sad face.( It did on my computer)
Cool, huh?
Also sorta works with this one.
:rolleyes:
Present Day Comatica
07-01-2005, 03:25
Alright. Look at the sentence below and highlight it. Make sure to include the smiley.(left click and scroll over)
Monkeys will rule the world :) .
Now look at the smily when you do this. If you did it right, I't will apper like a sad face.( It did on my computer)
Cool, huh?
Hmm...didn't work for me. Oh, well.
It's easy, highlight the smile and it looks like a frown. I have a Windows XP, so if you have a differnt PC and it doesn't work, that may be why.
Alright. Look at the sentence below and highlight it. Make sure to include the smiley.(left click and scroll over)
Monkeys will rule the world :) .
Now look at the smily when you do this. If you did it right, I't will apper like a sad face.( It did on my computer)
Cool, huh?
Happy...Sad...Happy...Sad... Wow, the things we do with our free time. Boy am I ever easy to amuse...Happy...Sad...Happy...Sad...etc *shudders*
Present Day Comatica
07-01-2005, 03:31
It's easy, highlight the smile and it looks like a frown. I have a Windows XP, so if you have a differnt PC and it doesn't work, that may be why.
I can't even highlight the smiley in the first place. It won't let me.
Massaland
07-01-2005, 03:33
ehhh i have windows xp and it doesen't work for me :headbang:
knowing how to highlite them may help....
Soviet Narco State
07-01-2005, 03:37
Cool, huh?
I hearby award you the nobel prize for the world's least important discovery!
I hearby award you the nobel prize for the world's least important discovery!
FINALLY YES!!!!!
Erastide
07-01-2005, 04:01
Heh. I think it's an IE thing. I get it there but not in Mozilla.
But yes.... you have too much time on your hands posting such a thread. :p
Smoltzania
07-01-2005, 04:05
it's not a computer OS thing i don't think.
i'm on AOL (gasp, i know) on windows 2000 and it works. it's probably more of a perception thing. it doens't look INCREDIBLY different but it does look more like a sad face.
(Heh, I was going to reply to this when it was still fresh, but after hitting Submit, I was greeted with the "You are not logged in...blah blah" page, and my post was lost... Well, I was so disgusted, and out of time, that I didn't bother to type it again then... However, since I had gone to so much trouble, I wanted to post it today, anyways... So here goes, again...)
This discovery can be pretty easily explained (not that this makes it any less of a super awesme find! lol)
What's happening here can be chalked up to the dither that is used to highlight selected images...
A "dither", for those that don't know, is a pattern of different colored pixels (usually a "checkerboard" arrangement) that is used to approximate another color... For instance, you can alternate red and blue pixels to make a pseudo-purple, white and black to make gray, etc...
Well, you can also make a "shadowed out" selection dither by alternating black and transparent pixels, and that is what is being used in this case...
The black pixels in the dither overlay line up just right with the pixels in the smiley face to make it look like a sad face... The original smiley is still there, but it is being "masked" by these added pixels...
For better illustration, the following picture shows the smiley, blown up 3x in both unselected, and selected styles... I've also included a version where the dither pixels are changed to another color (blue), to better show where they are covering the picture, and where the original picture is showing through... Next to that, is that same alternate example, but with the original smiley's black pixels restored... And finally, the last section is a simple example of a black and white dither...
http://www.geocities.com/supersaiyangokux/smileydither.txt
(Note that the above image is hosted on a GeoCities account, and may or may not show up, due to daily bandwidth limits and such... But oh well...)
Helennia
11-01-2005, 09:39
What's happening here can be chalked up to the dither that is used to highlight selected images...
Bah. That's ruined my enjoyment of the happy/sad metamorphosis ... It's like the day I found out rainbows were simply diffracted light, and nothing to do with leprechauns :( I'm repressing your post for the infantile purpose of being able to point and say "Cool!". :D
Oh, and I can tell you that the happy/sad trick doesn't work on an iMac.
Agnostic Asses
11-01-2005, 09:49
and I thought I needed to find something better to do with my time
Turkumstein
11-01-2005, 09:53
[QUOTE=SSGX]
This discovery can be pretty easily explained (not that this makes it any less of a super awesme find! lol)
What's happening here can be chalked up to the dither that is used to highlight selected images...
[QUOTE]
Well that ruined the moment....what ever happend to just saying COOOOOOLLLLLL..................oh and...you are either waaay too smart...or have waaaaaay to much time on your hands......or maybe both.... :)