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0 pointseviks13d ago0 comments

> As GP has said: "It's very possible".

And as the reply asked: provide at least one example

> Maybe in animated media it is an acquired taste/coconut effect and not a way to exploit our visual system.

So not relevant to the original theory? Also, that'd be an example of extra effort into ugly frames that originated as cost saving measures, not quality/artistic expression methods.

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ValdikSS13d ago· 2 in thread

You can read why people prefer 24 fps movies instead of high-fps ones.

I'm quite puzzled by the article. Animations in software are transitions, it should not be perfect in UI sense, because it might look weird to the human eye in this case.

I'd prefer motion blur to something crisp. This is the case of file picker example.

eviksOP13d ago

You can also read why those people are misguided. But instead of doing the irrelevant art analogies again, go back to the article and cite a specific principle that is violated by blur.

It has a list:

> Now, what does it mean in practice?

Also, blur doesn't even look weird statically! And again, provide at least one example where it looks weird to our eyes

> This is the case of file picker example.

You also don't seem to understand what that example shows, the "blur/crisp" is not at issue here, it's, for example, "textedit" jumping on top of "where". Now explain what non-artistic human vision benefit there is to 2 words being drawn on top of one another in a UI transition instead of the first word disappearing completely before the second moves to its place.

ValdikSS13d ago

>You also don't seem to understand what that example shows

I do understand, and this is exactly what I consider weird. Instead of repainting (in any way, even what is considered pleasant by you and Nikita), I'd prefer blur/mosaic/white window during the animation. Not the motion blur, but just not the actual contents of the window! This breaks "every frame is perfect", you can't make a meaningful screenshot of this transaction.

In KDE's Kwin, I configure windows resizung using crude stretching algorithm. This means I see non-proportionally weirdly stretched window several frames, then it repaints. On screenshots that looks really weird, while in reality this is quite ok.

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