Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Windows 7 Beta Fish Wallpaper

Windows 7 Beta Fish Wallpaper
December 16, 2009
Taipei, China


Windows 7 Beta Fish Wallpaper










 

This wallpaper is beautiful. That much is obvious.

But why did I say it was clever? Because experience shows that blue may well be the most durable color for a wallpaper. Many other colors become tiresome after a while. Blue on the other hand, seems to hold up in the long term.

Given blue as our first choice, what next? One could of course make the blue wallpaper a blue sky. After all, the name of the operating system is Windows. As one looks out one's window, what does one see? The blue sky, of course.

But another, less obvious, but even more ingenious concept, is to make the blue wallpaper the blue sea. The bright spot is of course the sun. Its rays penetrate the surface of the waves.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Story-of-the-Windows-7-Beta-Fish-101857.shtml

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A modified "nightlight" version


 







A laterally inverted version that improves contrast between icons and wallpaper

2 comments:

Matt Lawrence said...

Glad I could help!

Matt Lawrence said...

I've made some modifications to my blog, so the new location of the beta fish story is: http://blog.mat-lawrence.co.uk/2009/01/story-of-windows-7-beta-fish.html