TOTM Stars

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Oh, it's super pretty. I like that the background is different each time.

That's pretty, and it's an interesting use of transparency in making the background.

Why do you set the pen size to 0.4? You can't really draw with a width of less than a pixel, can you?

he thought this was js canvas and stroke weight could be arbitary things?

Even if it's canvas, no software can draw a line less than one pixel wide! Think about what a "pixel" is and how lines are drawn.

oh ooops

for whatever reason, setting the pen size to 0.4 adds the transparency the stars have

Project has now been updated to show this

Huh. Maybe it's trying to simulate a smaller pen size by dithering? Like this

--.--.--.--.

for a 2/3 width pen? For 0.4 it'd be

-..-..-..-

because of antialiasing the pen can be any size and it works fine

image

here integer pen sizes are cyan
antialiasing uses colors to simulate a higher resolution

Huh. Maybe it's trying to simulate a smaller pen size by dithering?

antialiasing is not dithering, dithering uses a high resolution to simulate extra colors
it's something that you'd only really see on very old computers, for pixel art, or maybe in some images from REALLY picky people

Oh ok thanks. Can you tell I'm not a graphics person? :~/