11 replies

1. Michael Knepprath 3 min later

   @zachleat I assume it reduces down to the lowest whole number ratio?

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 min later

      @mknepprath Maybe! With this information I can tell that it doesn’t match but it isn’t very useful to know the magnitude of error

      1. Thomas Randolph 21 min later

         @zachleat @mknepprath it's gotta be this. I wonder what the solution is? If they were to display it as X:1 or 1:X ratio, the values would be 10 digits long (not including decimal point).

         Maybe they could show both aspect ratios next to each other, and have the "broken link" icon between them to signify they aren't the same?? Showing reduced to 1:X could be a user option?

2. Eric A. Meyer 32 min later

   @zachleat Gotta stop sizing with primes, man.

   1. Gabriel N 47 min later

      @Meyerweb @zachleat I was about to say the same! Hahahaha

   2. Zach Leatherman 15 hr later

      @Meyerweb this is the next.js hello world 😅

3. Andy Davies 9 hr later

   @zachleat 37 and 61 are primes so don’t think it’s possible in that example

   1. Zach Leatherman 15 hr later

      @andydavies I mean, I understand why they did it—I just don’t think it’s particularly useful when you’re trying to gauge the magnitude of the difference

      1. Amelia Bellamy-Royds 17 hr later

         @zachleat @andydavies Ah, so instead of simplifying each aspect ratio separately, you'd rather expand them both to a common denominator?

         Rendered aspect ratio: 900:185
         Intrinsic aspect ratio: 900:183

         Yes, that is more useful. In this case, anyway. Would need a bit of code to figure out if normalizing to the lowest common multiple of the width or the height would be simpler.

         Or just:

         Rendered aspect ratio: 4.8648648 : 1
         Intrinsic aspect ratio: 4.9180328 : 1

         Which is not so elegant, but OK.

         1. Zach Leatherman 17 hr later

            @AmeliaBR @andydavies yeah! another similar thread here too: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/110305147163479708

4. Kilian Valkhof 15 hr later

   @zachleat haha! Yeah I noticed that too. In Polypane when the aspect ratio ends up being the dimensions of the image or box, I just hide them.