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Higher pixel density versions #2

Closed funwithtriangles closed 12 years ago

funwithtriangles commented 12 years ago

Seeing as devices with "retina" screens are becoming more and more popular, with an increasing difference between virtual CSS pixels and actual pixels, would it be wise to start asking contributors to make at least two versions of their images?

Otherwise these beautiful patterns will start looking a bit crappy on those super sharp screens!

atlemo commented 12 years ago

Yes, this is something I'm looking in to. There has been quite a few requests. For now though, you can still use them for high DPI projects as they all tile, but some will work better than others at the smaller visual size. But I'm quite sure I'll implement some sort of "2X" rez function in the (hopefully near) future.

funwithtriangles commented 12 years ago

Good to know this has been thought about! One thing I've tried doing, which seems to work for the more "pixelly" based patterns, is scale them to 200% in Photoshop, using the "nearest neighbour" setting. This means that the extra pixels will still appear crisp, instead of having that fuzzy appearance when scaled with other methods. Something to consider doing to the back catalogue.

atlemo commented 12 years ago

The site is now updated with retina patterns. For now I'm not pushing them on Git, but I might end up pushing all the Zip files that has both versions.

ryanolson commented 12 years ago

+1 for @2x versions on github!

oisinlavery commented 11 years ago

+1

A separate 2X .pat file would be great too.