Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS

Re:Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS by kaoD on Monday September 16, 2013 @06:38AM (#6392523)

http://i.imgur.com/UzZYLW5.png

Check the farthest text. It's even worse in motion because the aliasing changes discretely.

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Re:Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS by chiph on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:39AM (#6393772)

Speaking as an old guy who saw Star Wars in the theater, it looked like that in 1977 as well. Not because of aliasing problems, but because they hit the resolution of the 35mm film and transfer process.

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Re:Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS by ggchappell on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @02:35AM (#6397924)

Yup. OTOH, the errors didn't change discretely as the text moved.

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Re:Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS by leokun on Monday September 16, 2013 @07:16AM (#6392645)

It looks fine on a Retina MBP. The farthest text gets a little tiny bit of flickering maybe, but it looks sharp all the way until it fades out. Nothing like that.

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Re:Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS by ygra on Monday September 16, 2013 @07:29AM (#6392697)

The flickering is what kaoD referred to with discretely changing aliasing. It shouldn't happen, ideally. Small pixels make it a little less jarring but still noticeable.

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