Thread:LunarSplendens/@comment-9160917-20130905043238

Just sorta checking in. Thought I'd say hi.

Actually, I'm here for a reason.

I was meandering through the Intertubes the other day, when I discovered something called Vector graphics.

This literally changed my entire life.

(Well, okay, maybe not, but it's still pretty freaking cool.)

I thought I'd share the idea a little, and you're a cool friend, so I figured I'd start with you. Most images on the Internet are in a format called raster images. These are all the basic types of files you commonly see (PNG, GIF, JPG, even AVI's and SWF Flash files). These files, like everything on a computer, are based on pixels. Super simple stuff, right?

Vectors are not.

Vector graphics are computer images generated using actual polygons and math and stuff. This means that, no matter how far you zoom in, the picture remains clear and straight-edged, and you will never see pixels. Vectors are commonly drawn by browsers in a format called .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics), which aren't even technically images, just congregations of polygons.

Anyways, the root of the matter is, it makes crazy awesome looking sprites.

More info if you're interested (which you are).

And of course, examples:





Anyways, don't know about you, but I was impressed.

Here, screw around with it yourself!

~RyGuy McFly 