{"id":516,"date":"2008-07-06T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:44:44","slug":"generations-of-screen-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/generations-of-screen-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Generations of screen sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a list of common screen resolutions and plot them on a log\/log scale, you will notice that a regular pattern emerges - given an x by y resolution, x*2 by y*2 also tends to be common. However the sizes are not evenly distributed throughout logarithmic spaces - there are gaps which suggest different \"generations\" of monitor sizes, each monitor having 4 times the number of pixels as the corresponding monitor in the previous generation. I suspect this is because of the influence of TV - the resolutions are clustered around powers of 2 of TV resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Generation 1 - 256-480 pixels wide, 180-300 pixels tall (non-interlaced TV, handhelds)<br \/>\nGeneration 2 - 512-960 pixels wide, 360-600 pixels tall (interlaced TV, older computer monitors)<br \/>\nGeneration 3 - 1024-1920 pixels wide, 720-1200 pixels tall (most current computer monitors)<br \/>\nGeneration 4 - 2048-3840 pixels wide, 1440-2400 pixels tall (\"Q\" standards - very high end monitors)<br \/>\nGeneration 5 - 4096-7680 pixels wide, 2880-4800 pixels tall (\"H\" standards - no monitors exist yet)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/resolutions_graph.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a list of common screen resolutions and plot them on a log\/log scale, you will notice that a regular pattern emerges - given an x by y resolution, x*2 by y*2 also tends to be common. However the sizes are not evenly distributed throughout logarithmic spaces - there are gaps which suggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}