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Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches?
- tlrobinson 10y agoI was hoping for something a little more sinister.
- Snargorf 10y agoA Baphomet pentagram hidden under the arrow would've been a lot more amusing.
- nononosisisi 10y agoI can already see Trump telling us that she is part of the Illuminati and his source will be The Enquirer.
- yk 10y agoAnd now I will check every svg logo I come across for easter eggs.
- hbosch 10y agoYou laugh, but the agency who designed this logo is named Pentagram.
- voxic11 10y agoSuch sentiment seems common when talking about the Clintons.
- travmatt 10y agoI was led to believe her logo is the illuminati triangle, personally.
- fiatmoney 10y agoWell, in one sense it has notches. In another, the legs are crooked.
- sevenless 10y agoIt's hiding its crooked nature just like Hillary, WAKE UP SHEEPLE
- wesleytodd 10y agohahaha, this comments wins for use of the word "sheeple"
- pilsetnieks 10y agoIf this was reddit, I'd answer with the relevant XKCD where you have awoken the Sheeple from their eternal slumber.
- nononosisisi 10y agoSo my joke below gets downvoted to oblivion and yet this trash is still here. Why?
- yongjik 10y agoThey don't want the underlying layer to show its true color ...
- lbrandy 10y agoWhat could be more sinister than aliasing issues?!?
- bgribble 10y agoTimezones
- richforrester 10y agoMagnets
- eru 10y agoCalendars! When working in finance, you care a lot about public holidays, because interest on wholesale loans between banks is calculated per business day. On global scale, there are more public holiday schemes than countries or timezones. And some countries change their public holidays willy-nilly on short notice.
- chaosphere2112 10y agoClimate data lives in a wide variety of exciting calendars that no normal person would ever use. 360 day years? Check. No leap years? Check. (I asked some of the scientists in my building, and apparently it makes the models a lot easier to write; just pushes the burden to post-processing)
- Gaelan 10y agogetUserMedia + MediaRecorder Don't even get me started.
- mahmud 10y agoAm I the only one who saw the twin towers? Sorry, 9/11 still has me on edge.
- comex 10y agoI'm getting an infinite redirect from this link.
- evanpw 10y agoMe too, but this link works: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-there-a-reason-hillary-clintons-logo-has-hidden-notches/73665 https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-t...
- AdamJacobMuller 10y agoI do too, can read it from Google cache though: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o-8fEueugWQJ:graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-there-a-reason-hillary-clintons-logo-has-hidden-notches+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o-8fEue...
- xufi 10y agoSame here, doesnt seem to resolve to a page
- criddell 10y agoThey don't want the bottom color peeking out, so the notches ensure there are no coincident edges.
- eumoria 10y agowhat's a scenario that this would happen?
- comboy 10y agobuggy rendering engine
- capote 10y agoIt's explained in the answer on the linked page (and in the top comment). Depending on how it is rendered (due perhaps to a buggy renderer) it might show on a screen.
- spb 10y agoAny scenario where the SVG's shapes are rendered with anti-aliasing, and the edges of both overlapping shapes are mid-pixel: the edge of the top shape would be rendered with partial alpha, and then beneath that, the edge of the differently-colored lower shape would bleed through as it is also rendered, at that contiguous line, with partial alpha. EDIT: You can actually see this very effect in action if you zoom in on the diagonal edges of the yellow and blue faces of the logo on the BBC's page for the EU referendum happening right now: http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results - on these anti-aliased diagonal edges (enlarged: http://i.imgur.com/GmxUD60.png http://i.imgur.com/GmxUD60.png), since there's no indentation like the one this SE question highlights, the red shape underneath both of the shapes bleeds through. Compare the outlines of the shapes with the red shape conterminous beneath them (http://i.imgur.com/Nwyl8YE.png http://i.imgur.com/Nwyl8YE.png) to the outlines they have when that shape is removed (http://i.imgur.com/iOQmyJx.png http://i.imgur.com/iOQmyJx.png).
- teraflop 10y ago
- DevX101 10y agoSeems crooked, Trump was right all along!
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- capote 10y agoMmm, this answer is much better than mine because it uses the word alpha.
- capote 10y agoWow, this comment was just utterly buried. Why is it so terrible? I was being glib.
- capote 10y agoBuried again for asking why I was buried! Can I get a single response?
- dragonwriter 10y ago"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- capote 10y agoI'd just like to know in English why my comments sucked, down voting or not.
- nitrogen 10y agoMy guess: it's not adding much to the conversation. HN tends to frown on humor that isn't intellectually and conversationally productive.
- capote 10y agoI resent this treatment. There are many comments on this website that aren't productive from many standpoints and they do no harm. Look at this whole topic for examples.
- nicotonic 10y agoWhy do so many people in Stack Overflow try to answer the answer by adding a comment to the question instead of adding an answer which, I suppose, is the correct way? Are they just trying to get visibility?
- smegel 10y ago"It's not a bug, it's just how the algorithm works!"
- wongarsu 10y agoNot a bug, just a bad algorithm.
- gnu8 10y agoCountdown until this guy is arrested for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 for deconstructing that SVG image.
- duncan_bayne 10y agoIt's a dent made by Kennedy's car.
- wcummings 10y agoI can tell there aren't many New Englanders on HN from how buried this comment is...
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- rjbwork 10y agoWeird, this link is giving me infinite redirects. I went and found it on the stackexchange site myself under hot for graphicdesign and it did the same thing. The other answers on that subdomain work just fine. Strange.
- gtk40 10y agoI'm getting the same thing.
- gtk40 10y agoI'm getting the same thing (in multiple browsers).
- JeremyBanks 10y agoDo you use HTTPS Everywhere? (I don't know why that would apply in this case, but I recall various people having similar issues with it and Stack Exchange's partial HTTPS support.)
- MichaelApproved 10y agoI'm seeing a ton of (rightfully) down voted comments here with no clear reason from the down voters. Anyone who gets a down vote for their joke might just think it's because the joke is bad, instead if the more accurate reason that HN comments are more serious. One of the nicer things I've seen on Reddit was when a mod leaves a reason for removing a comment. It serves to inform the commenter and also remind the community of the rules. In a thread such as this one with potential for interesting discussion, it'd be a shame if the mods ended up killing it because the comments got out of hand. A top stickied comment reminding people of the rules and replying to people who had their comments down voted into oblivion with a reminder might go a long way to having a civil discussion about something like this.
- panic 10y agoAre there any solutions to this that don't involve rendering into a higher-resolution buffer and downsampling (or the MSAA moral equivalent)?
- jcl 10y agoI guess it depends on your definition of "solution" and "MSAA moral equivalent". What you're essentially asking is, "Is there a way to approximate the combined contributions of overlapping polygons to a set of pixels without sampling the exact color at multiple points per pixel?" One approach would be to avoid sampling at all, by using boolean geometric operations to find the exact shapes of visible polygons within a pixel, then using their color and areas to calculate their combined contributions. I expect the calculation involved will be impractical relative to multisampling, though. Another approach would be sample exactly once per pixel or, equivalently, render the polygons without antialiasing. Naturally, that would eliminate the show-through of hidden geometry at the expense of the accuracy of pixels around polygon edges. You might then be able to approximate the antialiased values by a post-processing filter, maybe guided by the presence of edges, although doing so will introduce its own set of artifacts. And if you consider "one sample per pixel" to be a budget over the entire image, you could sample the polygons more densely near polygon edges and more sparsely elsewhere, using nearby samples to approximate the values of pixels with no samples.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoIt never occurred to me that anti-aliasing methods had moral qualities at all.
- dllthomas 10y agoAvoiding graphic artifacts makes sense, but I'm going to bet on conspiracy, probably involving the Masons.
- iconjack 10y agoI am @iconjack, poser of the question, ask me anything! Kidding aside, as an avid user of the whole stackexchange suite, it is kind of interesting to me how popular this question became. It was only my second question on graphics design and it's become the all-time 3rd ranked question. Keep it going, folks! If you're curious, the reason I was looking at the logo svg was that I thinking about making a bumper sticker. When I saw the notches, I was perplexed, and threw the question up on a whim. You noticed I put the disclaimer at the top about the question not being about politics. I honestly thought there was a chance things would get ugly because of the loose tie-in to the whole election grotesquery. One time I asked a question on english.stackexchange.com, Is "Sent from my iPhone" correctly punctuated and capitalized?" and I practically got hate mail. Not only did I get snarky comments and answers, I believe the question was down to −8 at one point. It's since been upvoted into positive territory and some of the nasty remarks have been deleted, but I never really got what all the hate was about. One friend suggested that Apple fans would think I was dissing the iPhone or something. That's the only theory I've got.