And only noticed by four people out of 1 billion unique users a month? Why would they care? A flash, and the day is over.
On 24 Feb 2012, at 02:36, "Didier Dambrin" <di...@skynet.be> wrote: > they actually have a team behind doodles > http://www.google.com/doodles/about > http://www.google.com/doodle4google/press.html > & even a shop http://www.zazzle.fr/googledoodles > > it's a pretty big thing, if you consider that it's probably the most seen > "art" on earth, if you think of it > > > > -----Message d'origine----- From: QuikQuak > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:15 AM > To: A discussion list for music-related DSP > Subject: Re: [music-dsp] google's non-sine > > They are too busy in money making decision madness to focus on what the new > guy does for the daily graphics job for minimum wage, something that goes > like "do a thing that's animated and looks different and cool and get it on > my computer by lunch time!" > So they do that and go for a burger, and all is done for the day. : ) > > > > > On 23 Feb 2012, at 23:27, douglas repetto <doug...@music.columbia.edu> wrote: > >> >> But it's Google!!! Surely they have the resources to generate a sinewave >> animation that features an actual sinewave if they want to. >> >> I know it's a silly thing to rant about. But the Google front page has a lot >> of reach (how many millions of hits a day?), and it gives me deep nerd pain >> to think about something so fundamental and so beautiful -- yes, there's a >> deep connection between a circle and a sinewave! -- being botched. >> >> I'll stop ranting now! >> >> douglas >> >> On 2/23/12 9:53 AM, Didier Dambrin wrote: >>> There's also the fact that it's not easy to draw a sinewave in existing >>> tools out there. >>> Those who have drawn GUIs here and had to show waveforms know what I >>> mean, I remember I've ended up with google-like non-sines as I was >>> trying to draw a sine using 2 half ellipses. It may be what happened to >>> the guy who drew that. >>> Ask yourself how you'd do it.. the most accurate would be to use a real >>> plot of a sine, but now good luck converting that to vectors in a proper >>> image editing tool, for a nice antialiased display. >>> >> >> >> -- >> ............................................... http://artbots.org >> .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org >> .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> ...........repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism >> ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas >> >> -- >> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp >> links >> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp > links > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > > ----- > Aucun virus trouve dans ce message. > Analyse effectuee par AVG - www.avg.fr > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Base de donnees virale: 2114/4827 - Date: 23/02/2012 > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp > links > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
