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They're not at different depths. Lowercase y and lowercase g reach under the baseline, and so the corners you're looking at appear, in the projection, to be at

They're not at different depths. Lowercase y and lowercase g reach under the baseline, and so the corners you're looking at appear, in the projection, to be at a lower height than, say, lowercase s. I don't see anything about uppercase m that makes it appear in a different position.

nomel 4y ago
The horizontal line of the T goes down to the bottom left of the O. How can this be, since the bottom of the T would be in the middle of the bottom edge of the O, if they experienced the same transformation? The Y has a different baseline than the T, which also doesn't make sense. They are both a centered vertical line, so they should be the same. Maybe I'm just completely wrong. But, my eyes are used to boring perspective projections, rather than whatever this is, which is probably why it looks so wrong to me.
- fluoridation 4y ago
  You're assuming that all letters have been rotated along an axis that goes through their leftmost edge. That's not necessarily true. Uppercase T and Y have been rotated along an axis roughly centered on their width.
  - nomel 4y ago
    > along an axis roughly centered on their width. I'm actually not making that assumption. I think it would be easier for my eyes if they did have the same transformation, but they clearly don't. My problem is that it's an impossible transformation! If you place a piece of paper on your screen, as a horizontal reference line, you'll see the bottom (vertical) portion of the T is aligned with the left of the I. It extends all the way down. The top left of the T is also aligned with the left of the I. I don't see how this is possible. Here's an image with T translated over to I, to demonstrate: https://imgur.com/a/aSJeYxT https://imgur.com/a/aSJeYxT The only way this is possible is if T has a longer horizontal line, which why it looks odd to me, a sort of "duck or woman" effect alternating between "is it left or center aligned", depending on if you look at the top or bottom, with the usual assumption that the characters would have the same height.
    - fluoridation 4y ago
      You're right, but I guess it would have looked even weirder to have the bottom of some letters at a very different height on the screen depending on their shape.

nomel 4y ago

The horizontal line of the T goes down to the bottom left of the O. How can this be, since the bottom of the T would be in the middle of the bottom edge of the O, if they experienced the same transformation? The Y has a different baseline than the T, which also doesn't make sense. They are both a centered vertical line, so they should be the same. Maybe I'm just completely wrong. But, my eyes are used to boring perspective projections, rather than whatever this is, which is probably why it looks so wrong to me.

fluoridation 4y ago
You're assuming that all letters have been rotated along an axis that goes through their leftmost edge. That's not necessarily true. Uppercase T and Y have been rotated along an axis roughly centered on their width.
- nomel 4y ago
  > along an axis roughly centered on their width. I'm actually not making that assumption. I think it would be easier for my eyes if they did have the same transformation, but they clearly don't. My problem is that it's an impossible transformation! If you place a piece of paper on your screen, as a horizontal reference line, you'll see the bottom (vertical) portion of the T is aligned with the left of the I. It extends all the way down. The top left of the T is also aligned with the left of the I. I don't see how this is possible. Here's an image with T translated over to I, to demonstrate: https://imgur.com/a/aSJeYxT https://imgur.com/a/aSJeYxT The only way this is possible is if T has a longer horizontal line, which why it looks odd to me, a sort of "duck or woman" effect alternating between "is it left or center aligned", depending on if you look at the top or bottom, with the usual assumption that the characters would have the same height.
  - fluoridation 4y ago
    You're right, but I guess it would have looked even weirder to have the bottom of some letters at a very different height on the screen depending on their shape.