{"id":673,"date":"2008-10-15T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2009-08-13T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T17:06:52","slug":"how-good-is-your-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/how-good-is-your-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"How Good is Your Eye?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This neat little Flash app tests your ability to <a title=\"The Eyeballing Game\" href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/eyeball\/\">eyeball (estimate) geometric angles and distances<\/a> and then compares your results to the last 10,000 people who took the test.<\/p>\n<p>I got the following results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/eyeball-score.png\" title=\"My Eyeballing Skillz\" width=\"480\" height=\"141\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-676\" \/><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" border=\"0\" id=\"scores\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"130\"\/>\n<td width=\"50\"\/>\n<td width=\"50\"\/>\n<td width=\"50\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Parallelogram<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7.6<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3.2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Midpoint<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bisect angle<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4.8<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Triangle center<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Circle center<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5.1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Right angle<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5.5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.6<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Convergence<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10.0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Average error:<\/b> 3.90 (lower is better)<\/p>\n<p>How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this sort of skill correlates to your design sensibility in any way or helps you perform design related tasks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a test to quantify your eyeballing skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}