Eyeballing Game
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ORIGINAL: Kewl Breeze
I h8 u mang!!!!!!! As a graphic artist I love that game since it's right up my alley and spent over an hour on it. I'm deadly accurate with all of them except the right angles which is screwing up my average .. I SUCK at the right angles and have been screaming at my monitor
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I h8 u mang!!!!!!! As a graphic artist I love that game since it's right up my alley and spent over an hour on it. I'm deadly accurate with all of them except the right angles which is screwing up my average .. I SUCK at the right angles and have been screaming at my monitor
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ORIGINAL: Kewl Breeze
II SUCK at the right angles and have been screaming at my monitor[&:][:@][&:]
II SUCK at the right angles and have been screaming at my monitor
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You may be on to something although mine where so far off that I'm sure some of it is on my end as well. Looking at some of your scores, it doesnt look like you where as far off with the right angles as I was but some of it may also have to do with my monitor according to the maker of that game:
The find center of circle one is actually one of the easiest ones on there on a computer. I got 0% percent margin of error on that one several times. The trick to that one is: In every circle there is a certain point on the screen with pixels (unlike hand drawn circles) where the top, bottom, left and right slightly start squaring off, look for those points and place the x in the imaginary cross hairs in the center and you'll hit it almost dead on every time.
Right angles and monitor adjustment:
I get many emails from people claiming that the right angles in the eyeballing game are not square. Though I already explained this in the "about" page, there are many people who indignantly claim that the game doesn't know what a right angle is.
Its very important that your computer's display aspect ratio matches that of your monitor. I frequently get emails from people claiming that the right angles are not quite right angles. Some even send screenshots, which allows me to be doubly certain that it's their display that's the problem.
If you are using an LCD display, your screen resolution should be set to match the display's native resolution. For example, 17" or 18" non-widescreen monitor tend to have a resolution of 1280x1024. That's a 5:4 aspect ratio. If you set your computer to 1024x768, that's a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is not quite the same as 5:4. The image thus gets scaled and stretched vertically more so than horizontally. This makes right angles not look like right angles (unless they were aligned with horizontal and vertical). It also makes circles look like ovals, and makes the other solutions look subtly incorrect.
Distortions can get much worse if a widescreen display is used without setting the PC's video output to something that matches the monitor. So if right angles don't appear quite square, is not a problem with the game, it's a problem with your display. Please check your display settings before emailing me, because I'll just send you a link to this page!
I get many emails from people claiming that the right angles in the eyeballing game are not square. Though I already explained this in the "about" page, there are many people who indignantly claim that the game doesn't know what a right angle is.
Its very important that your computer's display aspect ratio matches that of your monitor. I frequently get emails from people claiming that the right angles are not quite right angles. Some even send screenshots, which allows me to be doubly certain that it's their display that's the problem.
If you are using an LCD display, your screen resolution should be set to match the display's native resolution. For example, 17" or 18" non-widescreen monitor tend to have a resolution of 1280x1024. That's a 5:4 aspect ratio. If you set your computer to 1024x768, that's a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is not quite the same as 5:4. The image thus gets scaled and stretched vertically more so than horizontally. This makes right angles not look like right angles (unless they were aligned with horizontal and vertical). It also makes circles look like ovals, and makes the other solutions look subtly incorrect.
Distortions can get much worse if a widescreen display is used without setting the PC's video output to something that matches the monitor. So if right angles don't appear quite square, is not a problem with the game, it's a problem with your display. Please check your display settings before emailing me, because I'll just send you a link to this page!
ORIGINAL: thisismyacct
lol.. well Ive got a history with a lot of auto cad programs and I could do em all perfect if I could only draw circles on the screen :P
lol.. well Ive got a history with a lot of auto cad programs and I could do em all perfect if I could only draw circles on the screen :P
The find center of circle one is actually one of the easiest ones on there on a computer. I got 0% percent margin of error on that one several times. The trick to that one is: In every circle there is a certain point on the screen with pixels (unlike hand drawn circles) where the top, bottom, left and right slightly start squaring off, look for those points and place the x in the imaginary cross hairs in the center and you'll hit it almost dead on every time.
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hehhe.. right angles were the easiest on my end.
0.3, 0.4, 0.4 inaccurate
what kept pissing me off was the center of a circle... I swear id be dead center then be off a bit and it kicks the score way up
0.3, 0.4, 0.4 inaccurate
what kept pissing me off was the center of a circle... I swear id be dead center then be off a bit and it kicks the score way up
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I was doing OK but my mouse grabs the right angle funny and threw it out to something like 20 or so off. I'd grab the line, get it near perfect as I could and when I released the mouse, it'd go way out there????????? Most of them were under 4 or so.
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ORIGINAL: ebinz88cane
right angles were the easiest on my end.
right angles were the easiest on my end.
TIPS or GTFO!! [8D] cuz either the guy that made that game doesn*t know wut a right angle is or I don*t.
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ORIGINAL: Kewl Breeze
TIPS or GTFO!! [8D] cuz either the guy that made that game doesn*t know wut a right angle is or I don*t.
ORIGINAL: ebinz88cane
right angles were the easiest on my end.
right angles were the easiest on my end.
TIPS or GTFO!! [8D] cuz either the guy that made that game doesn*t know wut a right angle is or I don*t.
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RE: Eyeballing Game
Your inaccuracy by category:
Parallelogram 4.2 5.4 1.4
Midpoint 2.0 0.0 1.4
Bisect angle 3.3 5.0 4.8
Triangle center 6.0 2.5 8.1
Circle center 2.2 1.4 1.4
Right angle 3.1 8.8 15.6
Convergence 3.2 7.3 12.0
Average error: 4.72 (lower is better)
4.72 woo545
5.29 woo545
6.29 woo545
6.69 woo545
Parallelogram 4.2 5.4 1.4
Midpoint 2.0 0.0 1.4
Bisect angle 3.3 5.0 4.8
Triangle center 6.0 2.5 8.1
Circle center 2.2 1.4 1.4
Right angle 3.1 8.8 15.6
Convergence 3.2 7.3 12.0
Average error: 4.72 (lower is better)
4.72 woo545
5.29 woo545
6.29 woo545
6.69 woo545
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From: elkins, wv
RE: Eyeballing Game
Your inaccuracy by category:
Parallelogram7.01.03.2Midpoint2.21.03.0Bisect angle0.70.12.1Triangle center2.61.01.9Circle center3.63.62.2Right angle2.12.00.1Convergence6.09.55.8 Average error: 2.89 (lower is better)
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1.13
kona kid1.14
kona kid1.99
msd2.13
jbone2.30
skip2.39
Preston2.40
brad r2.45
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msd2.46
cynjon
Best scores on this computer:
2.89
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Parallelogram7.01.03.2Midpoint2.21.03.0Bisect angle0.70.12.1Triangle center2.61.01.9Circle center3.63.62.2Right angle2.12.00.1Convergence6.09.55.8 Average error: 2.89 (lower is better)
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Best of the last 500 games: (more)
1.13
kona kid1.14
kona kid1.99
msd2.13
jbone2.30
skip2.39
Preston2.40
brad r2.45
2.46
msd2.46
cynjon
Best scores on this computer:
2.89
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