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What Smilies Do You Use Most?
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Apr 9, 2013
Some of the smilies are extraordinary. The movement in the 
and 
smilies puts them a notch or two higher than I ever expected.
What Smilies Do You Use Most?
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Apr 9, 2013
The 
is great, too. And there's one with moving gears.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Apr 9, 2013
? (I love it, and I love the idea of them being on rotation)
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Icy North Posted Apr 9, 2013
I still think the cog rotation ratio is wrong. The small one's supposed to spin faster:
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Pastey Posted Apr 9, 2013
It does, it's just an optical illusion that it's not.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Apr 9, 2013
The small one does spin faster, Icy. I actually worked out the gear ratios and corresponding degrees of rotation when I was doing the animation frames to make sure the teeth engage and disengage properly. 
Larger gif files are available as proof on request 
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Icy North Posted Apr 9, 2013
How can you be so sure that it's the optical view that is incorrect? It may be the spatial dimension that's at fault here.
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a-a-e Diagnosis: chair Posted Apr 9, 2013
I'm going to start blaming the temporal dimension for me being late for stuff.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Apr 9, 2013
I'm going to start doing that, too.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Apr 15, 2013
Have you got the 
smiley on there? I can't see it.
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Pastey Posted Apr 15, 2013
The only one that I'm aware of as missing is the 
one because variable names can't start with numbers, and whoever named that should have been aware of that
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Researcher 14993127 Posted Apr 15, 2013
Its just < tit > 
rather than bluetit and the reverse mouse is spelt wrong hence that not showing.
< esuom > 
This in IE9 btw.
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Researcher 14993127 Posted Apr 15, 2013
Oops, I seem to be doing well for 
's today. 
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- 81: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Apr 9, 2013)
- 82: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Apr 9, 2013)
- 83: Sho - employed again! (Apr 9, 2013)
- 84: ITIWBS (Apr 9, 2013)
- 85: Icy North (Apr 9, 2013)
- 86: Pastey (Apr 9, 2013)
- 87: Malabarista - now with added pony (Apr 9, 2013)
- 88: Icy North (Apr 9, 2013)
- 89: Pastey (Apr 9, 2013)
- 90: a-a-e Diagnosis: chair (Apr 9, 2013)
- 91: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Apr 9, 2013)
- 92: Pastey (Apr 15, 2013)
- 93: Pastey (Apr 15, 2013)
- 94: hygienicdispenser (Apr 15, 2013)
- 95: Pastey (Apr 15, 2013)
- 96: Pastey (Apr 15, 2013)
- 97: Pastey (Apr 15, 2013)
- 98: Pastey (Apr 15, 2013)
- 99: Researcher 14993127 (Apr 15, 2013)
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