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Smart Wallpaper

So, I set one of those snazzy wallpapers that I mentioned in my last post and I thought to myself… I wonder if Vista and WPF in general will spur the development of what I’ll call “smart wallpaper”. This is a vector-based wallpaper that will look good no matter how big you stretch it. Obviously photographic non-vector backgrounds will be stretched and interpolated, but these can always be supplied at high resolution just like today. What would be interesting is either enhancing static images with vector logos and text or perhaps supply a complete wallpaper using vector graphic definitions.

Check out this stretched Windows Server 2003 wallpaper. The image could easily be a vector graphic but even if it were a static image, the text could be rendered on the fly making this obvious stretching unnecessary.

W2k3_stretch

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Brilliant!

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