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Here is a preview design for a (business) card promoting the Fediverse (made in Inkscape).
I plagiarized the idea from @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social who has created card templates people can print and give out at protests.
Instead, i'm doing fully designed cards for more generic use. Lending my graphic design skills to the community. I will put these out as print ready files under a (non-commercial) Creative Commons license - so anyone can get a stack cheaply printed themselves to give out places or leave in coffee shops etc.
If there is interest, I will do a bunch of different designs, different languages, and a US size (I'm designing to EU standards). Plus maybe some stickers and posters too?
This particular design is my trademark 'busy with movement' style. I've based the design on the colours and shapes from the official Fediverse logo.

The back of the card has a similar background to the front. Circles of different sizes and with different bright colours. The heading text reads "The Federated Social Web". Underneath, white text on a darker background reads "Decentralized open social media built by people for people". There are then two coloured circles that say "Join one", "Join all". The circles then flow to the left top and contain icons of Fediverse platforms. The text at the top left reads "Learn More". Underneath the text is a QR code, and underneath that is the url "jointhefediverse.net".
The front of card. the background shows circles of different shapes and with different bright colours. larger text at the top reads "Join the Fediverse". Underneath is the Fediverse logo, and next to it the text "A universe of connected social platforms".

Here's how I edit screenshots of the 80*25-character VGA text mode to simulate the CRT look:
1) Take a screenshot of DOSBox. (It has square pixels and no extra pixel column between the 8*16-pixel characters.)
2) Add 1 black column to the right side of each character. (VGA does this in some text modes.)
3) Double the width and the height. Use nearest neighbour interpolation.
4) Make every 2nd pixel row of the characters lighter and the rest darker. This simulates the gaps between the horizontal sweeps of the electron beam.
5) Aspect ratio correction: Resize the width to 20/27 of the original. Keep the original height. Use linear interpolation. The ratio comes from (4/3)/((80*9)/(25*16)) where 4/3 is the aspect ratio of old screens and (80*9)/(25*16) is the aspect ratio of the image with square pixels.

the text of the post illustrated by six screenshots; each screenshot has the DOS prompt C:\> and the underline cursor after it

If you know Deluxe Paint ("DPaint") for the Amiga (and MS-DOS), you know that it's one of the best pixel editors ever.

@PyDPainter is a free, faithful DPaint resurrection, and the latest release includes a macOS beta version…

https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter/releases/tag/v2.1.0

I found the calibration file, and it is 19680 bytes in size.
Filling it with 0s makes the picture black, while Fs makes it white.
Dividing the file size by the width of a full resolution scan (1640 pixels) is 12 bytes per pixel or 4 bytes per color.
After trying out a few things, filling it with the 24 bit Integer HEX000080 (bang in the middle) and 8 bits of padding did the trick. :D

Now: FUN TIME!!

I made some scans of my face.
Full series in the 🧵.

🧵 2/X

screenshot of the included image editor "FinishingTOUCH" with some of the face scans open.

A @friction mograph test using text effect (a little too fast) !

Here is the friction project if anyone wants to take a look ! https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ8IldZJIA7G6DSzW0dOOxx9Dt3g0q4kMM7

Friction is an open source 2d animation software, which could replace

Unofficial discord https://discord.gg/FkjnM2r2JD
Official page https://friction.graphics/

small text animation "friction motion graphics"