Firewheel Design

Pixel Trivia I – 2005 April 21

Thanks for participating in Pixel Trivia I! The winners have been decided, the prizes are being sent, and the answers are below. Be on the watch, because Pixel Trivia II is bound to be coming soon.

  1. How many colors can contained in an 8-bit icon?
    256
  2. What version of Photoshop introduced us to “Layers”?
    Version 3, baby!
  3. Who designed the orginal Macintosh system icons?
    Susan Kare
  4. What was the most recent icon design project added to Firewheel Design's website portfolio?
    SlideShowPro, although we had a lot of people answer Deep Ellum. Maybe we should've rephrased the question, but it didn't effect the outcome of the winners.
  5. What do GIF, JPEG, and PNG stand for?
    Graphics Interchange Formet, Joint Photographic Experts Group, Portable Network Graphics
  6. What was the first Pixar Animation Studios film to win an Academy Award?
    Tin Toy
  7. What are the maximum icon sizes supported natively in Mac OS X and Windows XP respectively?
    128x128 for Mac OS X / 48x48 or 72x72 for Windows XP (We were looking for 48x48, since that is the largest resource a standard icon contains in Windows XP, but the OS does display them up to 72x72 or larger if you change your preferences. We think this is a stupid feature since it makes the icons look pathetic. But we counted 72x72 as an answer just the same.) Update: Craig Hockenberry at Iconfactory just informed us that Windows XP actually supports ICO files with a pixel size of up to 32768x16384 within the OS. Of course, at that size, we'd question using the term “icon.” However the desktop icons are still limited to 48x48 without over-riding the preferences.
  8. Name four of the original Macintosh system fonts.
    Chicago, New York, Geneva, London, San Francisco, Toronto, and Venice (props to Alex, who provided the original font names before Uncle Steve decided upon the world-class city names.
  9. What three color themes does the Deep Ellum icon collection at IconBuffet include?
    Vivid Color, Frosty Blue, Jet Black — Go buy a set today, you know you want to.
  10. What does the word “pixel” stand for?
    Picture Element
  11. What resolution was the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) capable of displaying?
    256x240 (Many answered 256x228, but that figure does not account for the 16 vertical pixels that are cropped by NTSC screens.)
  12. How many total pixels are contained on a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display?
    4,096,000