just got this to 2⁹ upvotes
Looking at them side by side is making me realize how much I didn’t realize I hate the top one
Yeah the bottom one is almost soothing in the way that your eye loops through it.
Part of that is however also that they chose better colors.
Well the top one is just a crude left-to-right gradient overlay with no regard for the shape whatsoever. You could slap that shit on any old shape and it would basically be the same, red on the left and violet on the right and that’s it.
The bottom one is a nice smooth transition that actually follows the shape. That’s why it’s so much more pleasant. The hue change occurs continuously as your eye goes along the path.
Oh and the bottom one is a more balanced shape overall. The top one feels too tall. Maybe it’s a golden ratio thing, I don’t know.
I think purple should be the color that goes under the overpass, since it’s the one our brain makes up between violet and red to turn our perception of visible light into a color wheel.
Sometimes I forget that purple is not a real but just a collective hallucination
Not all purple is faked. All onscreen purple is fake, but so is onscreen yellow and orange.
Indigo and violet are real and look purple to us. This is because they are moderately close to the blue frequencies so stimulate our blue cones and moderately close to double the red frequencies, so also stimulate our red cones.
There’s no way for you to tell whether you’re looking at something that’s genuinely reflecting indigo or violet light into your eyes, or something that’s shining a mixture of red and blue light at them.
If it’s on a screen, it’s definitely fake and not indigo or violet at all. Screens can only make red, green and blue light.
Any yellow or orange you see on a screen is also completely fake. It’s just red and green light mixed up with no yellow at all.
If you’re seeing it on an object, it’s far more likely to be real yellow or real indigo/violet. Pigment and light don’t mix in the same way at all.
Fun fact! (Op may already know) but it’s called a lemniscate! I learned this while doing a deep dive on the symbology of the rider waite tarot deck. Fascinating stuff it’s basically a super complicated greco-roman-judeo-christian crossover fanfiction with touches of Egyptian mythology and some stuff from the near east, especially the parts that influenced western alchemy (the academic term is syncretism).
I actually did not know that! That’s so nifty!
So it’s a Lemmy Lemniscate when it’s here?
Try saying that three times fast
i can think of few better symbols of autism than going “no no, that’s not accurate, hold on let me fix this…”
You could still keep the fountain pen style of the top while making the colors actually loop and while keeping functional antialiasing
yeah, sorry about the jaggies, the top one originally had a black background which i bucket-tooled out, and you know how the bucket tool is with jpegs. :/
That’s a matter of perspective.
I’ll show myself out …
Nah, top one is just an 8 on its side, not an infinity symbol at all.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks way to generic? I support it since it seems to be pretty well recognized but I wish it had more characteristics than rainbow figure 8.
I like it better than the Autism speaks puzzle piece since represents the community much better.
my idea for a better icon?
like it fits SO WELL
This deserves all of the upvotes
Aren’t symbols of large groups supposed to be generic?
If the infinity rainbow is gonna get used in any capacity though, I feel like the violet should be at the back, as it’s the darker hue.
That looks nice