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Why are all computer images squares? Why can't we have circular pictures and monitors?
Even pic related is a square with transparent corners to make it look like it's a circle when in reality it's a square.
▶ No.880789>>880798
Name one useful property of circular images.
▶ No.880791>>880798
>>880785 (OP)
How can you display a circle when pixels are squares
▶ No.880792
>>880785 (OP)
I sincerely hope you're just baiting and not actually too retarded to understand the reasons.
▶ No.880798>>880801 >>880802 >>880818 >>881036 >>881049 >>881223 >>883062
>>880789
Our sight isn't squared. A circle is more efficient since you can make it so it uses a 100 % of your sight instead of wasting the corners. See pic related.
>>880791
Irrelevant. Subpixels can be arranged in triangles or circles, too.
▶ No.880800>>880805
Computer screens are rectangular
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>>880798
>Subpixels can be arranged in triangles or circles, too.
Subpixels don't exist man. There are pixels, and then there is "sub pixel rendering" which is just rendering that takes into account the pixels physical makeup.
▶ No.880802>>880805
>>880798
>instead of wasting the corners
When everything is a circle you will waste all that fucking corner space. Instead of perfect screen usage you have massive gaps. This happens even if the physical screen is a circle.
▶ No.880805>>880807 >>880808
>>880800
Rectangles are squares.
>>880802
No, you won't. It would be necessary to rethink GUIs though.
>>880801
>subpixels don't exist
???
▶ No.880807
>>880805
>Subpixels can be arranged in triangles or circles, too.
You see that those are just normal rectangles right. There is no rearranging them into anything else.
>No, you won't. It would be necessary to rethink GUIs though.
Right so when I have one image, and then another image next to it, no wasted space? You literally cant pack circles and not have wasted space. Not without extra dimensional time bending bullshit that does not exist on 2d screens.
▶ No.880808
>>880805
>Rectangles are squares.
Squares are rectangles, rectangles are not squares.
▶ No.880813>>880819
>>880785 (OP)
Paper - the first output medium - is rectangular, because that's what's most practical for displaying text. This carried over to first screens and we just never bothered to change it. Even if circular screens were beneficial, just look at qwerty and how we're stuck with it, even though changing keyboard layout is basically free.
▶ No.880818
>>880798
>Our sight is a circle
No, it's closer to an ellipse.
▶ No.880819>>880823
>>880813
Circular displays don't make since at all even if it was free to instantly change. Op needs to explain what the fuck a system would even look like that does not waste all screen space.
▶ No.880822>>880829
Rectangles are easy to work with for a bunch of reasons.
Possibly the most important one for computer screens is that the most practical coordinate system is rectangle-based.
Another really important (but not entirely distinct) one is that you can pack rectangles with very little fuss. If you need to fill a shape with similarly-shaped differently-proportioned shapes without rotating them you can't do much better than rectangles.
▶ No.880823>>880827
>>880819
And I'm saying that it doesn't matter whether they make sense or not, because it'd be too costly to change to it.
▶ No.880827
>>880823
>because it'd be too costly to change to it.
If it made enough difference it could be changed, especially in new things like VR. In the case of qwerty the difference is just not enough to matter. You won't be typing 50% faster. I use dvorak for everything, not THAT MUCH better than before. Feels nicer to type tho.
▶ No.880829
>>880822
They don't make much sense for UI, but circles (or rather ellipses) would make perfect sense for videos. And not just for the sake of viewing, but also because in cameras you're actually wasting pixels by using rectangles.
▶ No.880830>>880831 >>880837
Because circles are mathematically a pain in the ass to deal with in any capacity.
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>>880830
Really? Then why are brains not cubes?
▶ No.880835
The same reason we don't have round books.
▶ No.880836>>880839
One way or the other, there will be wasted information. How many circular documents do you have verses square? If you're like most people, the answer is none or almost none. Pixels are arranged in a matrix so if you have a circular display you will always have to support additional discarded corners. Until someone invents displays with radian output and rasterization, it would be a total waste.
▶ No.880837>>880842
>>880830
Obviously any math would have to be based around angle+distance from centre, rather than what we're using for rectangles.
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>>880836
If that did exist, how would it still not be a waste. You cant put circles next to each other without throwing away all the edge space.
▶ No.880842>>880846 >>880847
>>880837
Yeah have you ever tried to program something like that, it'd be slow as hell
▶ No.880843
>>880839
>If that did exist, how would it still not be a waste.
It would be perfect for watching chinese cartoons. Duh.
▶ No.880844
>>880839
This is also true. Multiple monitor setups are arranged in a matrix. There are matrices everywhere. It just makes more sense to have square or rectangular output.
▶ No.880846>>881177
>>880842
If you could address via a circle abstraction instead it would be fine speed wise.
▶ No.880847>>880854
>>880842
>have you tried emulating this one system on infrastructure that's using entirely different system?
>it would be slow as hell
Obviously. The infrastructure would have to be entirely different for it to be viable.
▶ No.880854>>880856
>>880847
No, at a mathematical level you'd have to be doing trig stuff which is way more complex and would make CPUs needlessly expensive as they'd need to optimise for this.
▶ No.880856
>>880854
Lol no. Only when mapping circles to standard square pixels. You don't do any trig to address a hard drive sector.
▶ No.880857>>880860 >>880875
>>880785 (OP)
There are displays like radars that scan in a radius, and calculate with polar coordinates instead of cartesian.
Old technology though, but maybe it would be more efficient.
▶ No.880860>>880873
>>880857
That's a good point, but the image you chose makes my skin crawl
▶ No.880873>>880881 >>880895 >>881022
>>880860
IKR no radar could possibly go that far
▶ No.880875
>>880857
I thought these were all square screens with a facade placed over them to look circular until I went digging. I guess OP can now live out his fantasy.
▶ No.880881
>>880873
>IKR no radar could possibly go that far
Not a radar, but it could be launching a rocket for every ping, the rocket carries a nuclear device whose detonation is detected and displays a dot on that position in the map.
▶ No.880890
>>880785 (OP)
It's hip to be square
▶ No.880895>>881161
>>880873
No, I'm irked because the earth is a sphere, and that map isn't behaving like a sphere at all. It's stretching the poles horizontally to avoid deforming America and Asia, but it shouldn't treat the poles differently from any other area a quarter way around the earth. And the opposite to the origin of the radar should be stretched all around the circumference, not appear just at two sides.
It's favoring a horizontal projection, which is very suitable for maps but not for something like this.
▶ No.880922
>>880785 (OP)
It`s a matter of area and stacking, both in the production process and in the product usage, mapping and workability.
Also, the Square is the perfect figure of two dimensions.
Not doing it squared is the ultimate retardation.
▶ No.880938>>880950 >>881274 >>882157
Only squares stack perfectly. All other shapes either waste space between members of a grid, or waste perimeter by making borders of the grid irregular. It also has the advantage that rectangles of different sizes also happen to be stackable with ease. Rectangular screens are simply the best shape to convey the highest possible data density.
▶ No.880990
Because you can fit a circle with a radius of 5 inside a square with a side length of 10, but can't do it the other way around.
▶ No.881022>>881031 >>881175
>>880873
>IKR no radar could possibly go that far
Well, there are radars that could go that far, except for the fact that the Earth is round so most of it would just get beamed into space.
▶ No.881031>>881037
>>881022
>so most of it would just get beamed into space.
Yea so they cant.
▶ No.881036>>882095
>>880798
>our sight is a circle
4:3 faggots btfo
▶ No.881037
>>881031
>he doesn't want to track spacecraft
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▶ No.881049>>881053 >>882170
>>880798
economics plays a factor in all of this as well. thats why you get flat earthers.
▶ No.881053>>881128 >>881226 >>882500
>>881049
>believing the Earth is a ball
I hope you guys don't seriously do this. The galaxy isn't a game of billiards.
▶ No.881128
>>881053
>.gif
go fuck yourself ffs
▶ No.881161>>881226
>>880895
>the earth is a sphere
lol no its flat anon wew lad
▶ No.881162
>>880785 (OP)
We only used circular screens when oscilloscopes were the only kind of display tech available
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>>881022
>the Earth is round
Found the glow in the dark
▶ No.881176>>881226
>>881175
It might not be a sphere but it does have curvature
▶ No.881177
>>880846
You can't abstract away fundamental geometry without introducing loss of information. You think everyone uses square roots for circle checks because they like how slow it is?
▶ No.881223
>>880798
Where would we put the less important display elements that we don't want in our line of sight the entire time? (x) and (-) are a good example.
▶ No.881226>>881275
>>881175
>>881176
>>881161
>>881053
It amazes me that people like you manage to survive to adulthood.
▶ No.881269
>>880785 (OP)
Because they are impractical in about any sense. Dimensions are basically always defined in terms of straight lines (whatever is parallel or perpendicular to a coordinate axis is considered "straight"), and only after you have a coordinate system defined by perpendicular lines do you define circles. Matrices are perpendicular as well. Squares are exact even with low resolution, while circles are always only approximated.
▶ No.881274
>>880938
>what are triangles
Found the faggot who desperately tries to be the smartest on a mongolian pottery discussion website.
▶ No.881275>>882178
>>881226
>I don't have proof but I don't need it because you are obviusly retarded.
Wow you sure convinced me that the Earth is round.
▶ No.881294>>881847
>>881175
The term "round" is only unambiguous if you have exactly two dimensions. A disk is round (but it's also flat if viewed from a perspective of at least three dimensions). A sphere is round but not flat if viewed from a perspective of three dimensions.
▶ No.881317
>>880785 (OP)
macbook 20 design confirmed
▶ No.881847
>>881294
>A sphere is round but not flat if viewed from a perspective of three dimensions.
But it's flat when viewed from a perspective of four dimensions.
What we need are hypersphere screens.
▶ No.882095>>882096
>>881036
still closer than 16:9 faggot
▶ No.882096
>>882095
Fuck, forgot to sage.
brb, gotta kill myself
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▶ No.882116>>882118
>>880785 (OP)
Monitor = 2D space = 2D coordinate system to reference display points.
A Cartesian coordinate system is more amenable to indexing display point position than an orthogonal Polar coordinate system, and is natively more appropriate to binary systems (digital computers).
▶ No.882118
>>882116
This is also evidenced by the fact that circular displays are found in older analog systems. The angular index requires a continuous range for true accuracy. Within discrete (digital) systems the angular value would be an approximation and the difference more apparent f(distance from origin, object speed on screen)
▶ No.882127
Very small circled or halfsphered monitors with a hole in the middle would be usefull to build moveable robot eyes without muscles or strings. Is it possible to build something like this, or where would be the problem?
https://8ch.net/robowaifu
▶ No.882157>>882625
>>880938
Aren't hexagons the best ones to stack together?
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▶ No.882170
>>881049
Which brings us to another reason why there are no circular images and displays. They are trying to deny the existance of god, who made a round earth with luminaries that move in a circular motion.
▶ No.882178
>>881275
I can already tell that you're the type of person that wouldn't accept evidence if you were put into orbit.
▶ No.882478>>882496 >>882627
> square
They used to have rounded corners though.
▶ No.882496>>883122
>>882478
Putting round plastic on top of a square screen doesn't make it a round screen.
▶ No.882500>>883069 >>883416
>>881053
as you can see here, my avocado is flat, now if we just zoom out, you'll see that it's flat all over
wait
something's not right
▶ No.882501
>forgot the first one
I am a massive faggot, please rape my face.
▶ No.882625
>>882157
Hexagons are "best" were "best" = optimal stacking, with good structural integrity, for minimum boundary resources (lowest circumference 'walls') which is why nature uses hexagons so frequently.
▶ No.882627>>883055
>>882478
The CRT tubes were made of glass. Sharp corners would be a high stress point, and would cause a higher failure rate.
It was fun to charge up after turning off the display by sweeping the screen.
▶ No.883055
>>882627
>glass can’t be square
>what are windows?
▶ No.883058
When you lay bricks you shift each row by half the length.. just fyi before you start cutting them into hexagons.
▶ No.883062
>>880798
Our vision doesn't stop all at once. At the center there's a lot of focus, then the vision gradually worsens until you can only detect big changes in the light that comes in at the edges.
▶ No.883069>>883416
>>882500
>something's not right
correct
▶ No.883122
>>882496
The tube itself doesn't have a straight corner though. There is also some distortion on the edges.
▶ No.883416>>884294
>>882500
If the Earth is like an avocado how come telescopes have never spotted a giant avocado in space? Your model should at least account for something blocking our view of it, like the Sun.
>>883069
kek
▶ No.883675
>>880785 (OP)
Circles don't tessellate, you want hexes.
▶ No.883873>>883881
>>880785 (OP)
>ven pic related is a square with transparent corners to make it look like it's a circle when in reality it's a square.
Memory is sequential and a square is uniform in its width and height, even if one is larger than the other.
A circular array would be more of a pain in the ass.
▶ No.883881>>883907
>>883873
>a square is uniform in its width and height, even if one is larger than the other.
▶ No.883907>>884045
>>883881
>the width or the height of a rectangle changes randomly along the shape.
▶ No.884045
>>883907
First, you said square, second, that's not even what you meant with that post
▶ No.884294
>>883416
Is there any other significantly different celestial mechanics concept that would explain what can be seen in the sky equally well? The Ptolemeian system was surprisingly accurate (at least for the time) once epicycles were introduced into it and nobody complained much about its supposed inaccuracy for more than a millenium until the inertia of the church's influence was overcome and the Copernican system was widely accepted.
Also, why won't flatearthers simply fork Stellarium and change its algorithms to correspond with their views if they are so sure of them? Shouldn't Flatterrarium(tm) be much more accurate if based on """true""" premises instead of the """false""" ones like Stellarium? Wouldn't that be their victory?