City Stars

Introducing City Stars, a delightful new comic created by artist and grad student Grant Collins. As our hero sets out to discover everything he can about Montréal’s urban signage, ordinary frustration turns to peculiar fascination.

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- posted Mar 15, 10:35 PM in

Comments

  1. aj, Mar 17, 04:27 PM:

    There’s something odd about the way this renders, at least in Firefox on the Mac. The images are smaller than they should be, leaving the text completely unreadable, maybe it’s an absolute scaling value issue in Flash? (different platforms have different default pixel resolutions — also, is there any reason why this is in Flash at all, when HTML would work just fine?)

  2. Gabriel, Mar 17, 11:02 PM:

    I did the Flash programming. I realise now that the instructions we put on the front page aren’t readable at present for people with high-resolution monitors. If you double-click on the image, it zooms in and you can drag it around in order to get a good look at the text and detail.
    I hope that clears up any confusion. (True the zooming could have been done in JavaScript, but I prefer the predictable environment of Flash.)

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