Tim Churches wrote: > Finny Kuruvilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page >> looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased >> transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help >> for improving graphic quality. I had to change the margins a bit, but >> here is what it looks like: >> >> http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg >> >> Personally, I think it looks much better. Because people so often >> "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm >> wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current >> version? I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small >> improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit! >> > > If you run Eric Lecoutre's code to produce the graphic, available at > http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R, unchanged except for the addition > of these lines: > > library(Cairo) > Cairo(600,400,file="Rlogo_swiss.png",type="png",bg="white") > > then you get this: > > http://members.optusnet.com.au/tchur/Rlogo_swiss.png > > which I think looks even better. Kudos to Simon Urbanek and Jeffrey Horner > for the excellent Cairo device driver for R (and which works even without an > X server, which makes it great for web server applications). > > Tim C > Yes, this looks better. Finny's version looks oversmoothed in comparison. Out of academic curiosity, what happens if you diddle the parameters of the smooth-and-subsample technique to use a narrower smoother?
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