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I noticed Mac OS dock clones never use the same scaling method as Apple's. That's because they patented it!
by Synaesthesia 2y ago
I noticed Mac OS dock clones never use the same scaling method as Apple's. That's because they patented it!
- comex 2y agoHuh, I never knew that. But it looks like those patents have expired: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7434177B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7434177B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US8640045B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US8640045B2/en (in any case, this particular theme uses exact copies of some Apple icons [albeit apparently redrawn], suggesting the author probably wasn’t worrying much about IP rights.)
- Aurornis 2y agoThis theme isn’t shy about copying various icons and bits from macOS, so I doubt that’s it.
- michaelmrose 2y ago7. The computer system of claim 6, wherein said others of said plurality of tiles each has a left edge and a right edge located at distances d1 and d2 from said cursor, and is moved to a position such that said left edge has a distance d1 from said cursor and said right edge has a distance d2′ from said cursor wherein: d 1 ′=S×sine(π÷2×d 1 ÷W) d 2 ′=S×sine(π÷2×d 2 ÷W). 8. The computer system of claim 7, wherein said at least one of said plurality of tiles is scaled by a factor of: 1+(d2′−d1′)÷(d2−d1). This is... not an invention.