Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 2151 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 7:50 pm: | |
I was curious whether these characters were visible to everyone here so I created this empirical test. Do the following two lines look the same to you or do they look different?: ßßßßßß
(Please don't bother looking for minute pixel differences.) Thank you for your participation! |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1177 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 8:09 pm: | |
They look the same to me. They all have the same color and are both characters. |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 187 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 8:20 pm: | |
The first line is a row of esszets like this one ß in every colour of the spectrum. The second is just rectangular (taller than they are wide) blocks of colour, but the colours are the same as those of the esszets. |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9130 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 8:25 pm: | |
I've only two identical series of six colors, basically arranged in proper rainbow order. NO characters at all. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 2152 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 8:27 pm: | |
Bearinabox, thanks. That's what I was afraid of. I guess there's not much point in continuing this experiment then. Thanks to you too, Urbanize and Gannon. Over and out. (Message edited by Jimaz on May 09, 2007) |
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59
Post Number: 91 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 9:13 pm: | |
Although both lines look the same, They do not Highlight the same. |
Patrick Member Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4408 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 9:18 pm: | |
Reminds me of Ween's Rainbow song. |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 1259 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 9:15 am: | |
(wonders if he got IRB approval to run this experiment) |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 4066 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 12:34 pm: | |
A row of letters up top... a row of colors on bottom... thats all i see... |
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 1664 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 2:57 pm: | |
row of letters row of colors. me 2! |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2263 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 3:09 pm: | |
Interesting....when I first opened this posting this morning, both rows appeared to be the same small blocks of color. Curiosity got the best of me since people are still posting...now they look different: letters on top, blocks of color on bottom. What changed? I'm logged into the same work computer as this morning. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 2156 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 3:58 pm: | |
Kathleen, your experience is a mystery. Maybe someone uninstalled the font from your computer? Sounds unlikely but I can't think of another reason. I guess I have some explaining to do. I found these block characters in a WST_Engl font that I thought might be useful for perhaps artwork or something. I had a feeling that not everyone would have that font though. I used \font{WST_ENGL,ß} to generate the first line then took a screen capture of what I saw and made a small jpeg of it. That jpeg is the second line. If everyone had that font, no one would have reported a difference between the lines. I hope no one thought it was something devious. Thanks again to those who replied. |
Bumble Member Username: Bumble
Post Number: 86 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 4:01 pm: | |
Whew. I thought you were sending messages to the terrorists. |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 188 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 5:44 pm: | |
So wait, the blocks are the actual font? What are the esszets then? And what good is a font that's just a bunch of blocks? |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 4072 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 1:37 pm: | |
The blocks just mean that the font is not installed on the viewers computer... |
Supergay Member Username: Supergay
Post Number: 50 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 11:56 am: | |
All I see is a gay pride flag. |
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 658 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 2:19 pm: | |
Jimaz, thanks for explaining your mind control experiment. If you see just colors, you can't be controlled. If you see letters, you can, and if you see characters, you are...muhahahaha |