Nils

So I understand this is forced perspective, but how would you do the math to make it look like this from any angle? I would love to understand the whole process.

Alexander Micek

I was wondering that same thing (how they figured out the angles), and then I figured they just used something like a projector — so, they’d shine an image of “UP” and trace it out, and then fill it in with paint. I think that would work.

Nils

Ah! That’s probably exactly how they did it. The solution is simpler than I originally thought, but man, the result is still so cool. But wait, I just noticed: are our comment-posting rankings no longer a visible attribute of TumbleDry? If so, I’ll miss that feature.

Alexander Micek

Comment-left ranking display is still very much with us — some details about that follow.

If you are browsing with not-Internet Explorer (along with the roughly 26% of other web users), then you will see the comment ranking bar directly below the date of your comments.

Because the Internet Explorer team refuses to support the Data: URI scheme (supported by Firefox, Opera, Safari, et al.), it fails to display the comments-left rankings. Just a little nudge towards non-IE, though I thought you used Firefox, Nils? Perhaps because this is off to the left you missed it?

Hopefully that clears things up…

Nils +1

I do see a plus sign on a gray line, is this the display you were talking about? I just thought it was a decorative graphic but now I see the subtle differences in the gray line between our postings demarcating our separate posting progress. Glad that feature is still with us.

Alexander Micek

The comments-left thinger is probably overly subtle — we’ll all have to have an electronic telecommunication about this issue at some point.