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I put this together very quickly at someone's request and intend to make it much better as soon as possible. Below is an
explanation of why it looks odd and isn't as accurate in it's current state as it can be with more work. Most computer monitors have 1280x1024 maximum resolution (number of dots on the screen). The template for the real, non-virtual, slide rule is made with more than 2400 lines along the length of the scale. There are the black lines that you can see and yellow that you can't see. Some of the black lines are made up of as many as 10 lines in order to create the proper line thickness. The yellow spaces can be made of hundreds of yellow lines. Because each grouping of colored lines touch, you can't visibly see the separation between them. To compress the scales into something that fits on the screen, some of the lines have to be moved around and many even removed completely, resulting in some of the lines - both the yellow comprising the spaces and the black lines - end up in in places so that the relationship between lines is no longer optimal. The numbers are big and squashed because, once again, the image used here was compressed from a much larger image used to actually produce a real slide rule. I will later make images specifically for displaying on the monitor with both both lines and numbers that appear as the should on they computer monitor. back to top |