"Horizon"



Released under CC-BY-4.0.

This uses the now famous M-87 image from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration as source material: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1907a/ (released under CC-BY-4.0 per https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/copyright/).

High resolution image available at:

https://github.com/joedavis/horizon

and https://i.imgur.com/oTFhyhV.jpg

Personally, I really like like this one!

This wallpaper is very much in the spirit of the older Plasma wallpapers! However it feels like there is a bit too much contrast between the center element and its background, so the foreground sticks out and draws all your attention to it. I might recommend making the background a little bit brighter, and the center foreground a little bit darker. Also, I wonder if the foreground isn't quite big enough. Right now it's framed in the middle of the image; if it were large enough to go off the edges of the canvas a bit, that might improve the visual appeal. Making it a bit more off-center could have a similar effect too.

This wallpaper is very much in the spirit of the older Plasma wallpapers!

That was my intention. I'm glad it came through.

However it feels like there is a bit too much contrast between the center element and its background, so the foreground sticks out and draws all your attention to it. I might recommend making the background a little bit brighter, and the center foreground a little bit darker.

Having used this background on an older laptop fora few days, I have to agree. The bottom part of the foreground contrasts way too much.

Also, I wonder if the foreground isn't quite big enough. Right now it's framed in the middle of the image; if it were large enough to go off the edges of the canvas a bit, that might improve the visual appeal. Making it a bit more off-center could have a similar effect too.

I've been playing with some ideas, and I think rotating it anticlockwise about 70-90 degrees and enlarging it a bit is the nicest. I'll try to put together a v2 over the weekend with these changes, and a plasma mobile version.

ngraham wrote:This wallpaper is very much in the spirit of the older Plasma wallpapers! However it feels like there is a bit too much contrast between the center element and its background, so the foreground sticks out and draws all your attention to it. I might recommend making the background a little bit brighter, and the center foreground a little bit darker. Also, I wonder if the foreground isn't quite big enough. Right now it's framed in the middle of the image; if it were large enough to go off the edges of the canvas a bit, that might improve the visual appeal. Making it a bit more off-center could have a similar effect too.

Agreed, this is very nice btw and I really appreciate how you noted the licence of the photo you used.