On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:51:32PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> Roots painted their wall orange. Can anyone bring a large white >> screen to advanced topics tonight? > > The eye is wonderfully adaptive. After a few minutes, nobody noticed > that all the white letters were orange. I usually do my presentations > with white/yellow/gray lettering on a dark bluish background (actually, > SUN1=#333366 ), so I picked the right color combination to work with > an orange wall. However, future talks with the usual black lettering > on a white background may not fare so well. > > We started the presentation at 730 tonight, around twilight, and > the room was dark by the time I was done. As midsummer approaches, > it will be light a lot longer into the evening, and that will > accentuate the wall color problem. > > So ... how to deal with this for the "average" talk at future AT > presentations? I can project an 8 foot wide image on that orange > wall, or I can bring my portable 5 foot wide screen and set it up > on a table. Which image would people rather see at Advanced Topics? > > Keith >
Would it not be easier to simple hang a white sheet? That way, you do not have to bring a portable screen and you can cover more than a 8 foot wide area. Just a thought. -- Cheers, Jeff _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
