Type & code

Seven segment

Seven lamps per cell, and the tone decides which of them are lit.

Seven segment: a type & code effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
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Controls

cell
Pitch of the displays in source pixels. Below seven a lamp is less than a pixel and the panel stops being a panel
gap
Space between displays. At zero they merge into one field of segments and only the name is left
thickness
Width of a segment. On a real panel it is set by the stencil and the same on all seven lamps
skew
The italic lean of an LED panel. Not decoration: it stops the verticals of neighbouring digits from merging into one stripe
ghost
Brightness of an unlit lamp. All seven segments are always visible, and the dark ghosts are what make it read as a real display
dither
Seven lamps give eight steps, so gradients fall apart into slabs. This moves the threshold from display to display and keeps them readable
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.
lamp
A colour, #ffb02e by default.
panel
A colour, #0e0b08 by default.

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