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		mbleigh on Sept 22, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Feedback please - Actual size visualizatio... Haha, I love the concept! I'm not sure how often I'd go back and visit, but it was certainly an amusing little distraction.

iamdave on Sept 22, 2008 [–]

Agreed, I'd love hear what you used for the back-end in rendering the image sizes.

ptm on Sept 22, 2008 | [–]

Well, it's essentially Javascript.

It stores the ppi (pixels per inch) of the image, and the ppi of the screen and scales accordingly

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