VisualID SigGraph2004 paper

[Roger Larsson]

On Saturday 10 July 2004 21.30, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Roger Larsson wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 July 2004 11.53, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> >>Roger Larsson wrote:
> >> > Using "Huge" icon size together with "folder icons reflects content"
> >> > gives a nice visual aid for many files.
> >>
> >>yes, but for backup copies and derived projects with very similiar
> >>content the "similiar content versus similiar filename" issue from the
> >>paper discussion arises again. Maybe a combined icon made from
> >>thumbnail, visualID and the folder logo would be best.
> >
> > I think you should select thumbnail or visualID with mime icon blended
> > in. (probably minimal)
> >
> > Why?
> >   Images, video, web pages (html and war), pdf, works well as thumbnail.
>
> only if you don't talk about about different only slightly modified
> versions of a file like it is the case for backup-copies (CAD and EDA
> tools safe up to 10 automatically generated backup copies with almost
> the same name in the directory).
>
> The shape grammars would make all the backup copy IDs looking similiar
> in shape to the original but clearly distinguishable since their file
> names have all the same type of ending like e.g. ".$$1"...".$$9" or
> ".b01"...".b09" versus the original file suffix.

That is good in theory but in practice they might differ alot...
I searched for source and found:
 http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Work/VisualIDs/visualids_supplementary.zip
Take a look in visualids_supplementary/Experiment34/Icons

Compare icons for FINAL.tex and FINAL.tex~
I would also guess that all *$1.* also are backup files - they are
even more different...
What is worse is that a lot of the icons ends up as big black blobs...

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
Skellefteå
Sweden