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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I've seen these all over Europe. Some have simple images of the cross flashing, some have windows screensaver esque animations, and some have 3d renders of various things rotating in all sorts of ways. Why is that? Wouldn't a simple green cross be enough to get the point across, or do they need to be overly verbose? Here's the full video instead of a gif

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 4 months ago

Maybe some of Europe’s surfeit of demo coders had to make their money somehow, and one of them persuaded a pharmacy that paying them to make them a sign with graphics that spin in eyecatching ways would be a good idea, and the rest was history?

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Ha ha. Demo scene coders in the wild.

2kb apoteke demo comp 2024!

[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Hahahaha imagine if someone got doom running on one of those signs

[-] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

I'm about 101% sure it's possible, +-1.1%

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

They don't even need to persuade individual pharmacies. In my country, there is a trade organization of pharmacies that self-regulates the industry and decides, among other things, on the short list of companies whose crosses are allowed to be installed. There are only 6 so getting on that list will give anyone a huge number of orders.

[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

That could be what happened, but at a factory. I've noticed that a lot of them have similar graphics, so it might be a preset added in by the manufacturer.

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