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It's annoying when the number of participants on your video conference isn't a number that forms a tidy grid on the screen e.g. 3x4 or 4x5 little pictures. The more 'prime' a number is the worse this problem becomes. So, a prime number like 17 can be represented as a 4x4 grid, plus one sad, lonely individual
stuck onto the side of this grid, but even a number like 22 which is not prime but has few factors is hard to represent as a 2x11 grid on a normal screen - you'd probably have to have a 4x5 grid with two extra people stuck on the side of the grid.
So this idea is for the configuration options for your conference call to have an option where you can specify how prime you will allow the number of participants to be, and what will happen if the number of participants deviates from this - e.g. random people could be booted off the call until a satisfactory grid is re-formed.
Voronoi diagram
https://en.wikipedi...iki/Voronoi_diagram
[hippo, Sep 11 2024]
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[pocmloc, Sep 11 2024]
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Stuff the feeds into a Voronoi diagram, and let the participants drive their focus around.
If someone's saying something important, everyone can back off and give their video the space to expand. If someone wants to blend into the background, they can sidle up behind someone else near a corner. |
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Be gracious and generous - if there is a non-griddable number of callers, have your system automatically disconnect you from the call and post the reason and apology into the chat. |
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The more inclusive solution is to volunteer, perhaps in a less than entirely voluntary manner, people to be dragged into the call to make up the numbers required to develop a pleasing grid. |
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Notional croissant for the Voronoi diagram suggestion also! |
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Nice, [Loris]. I don't know why a Voronoi-type layout is not already used for conference call image tiling |
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[calum] the tele-screen in your house flickers into life and says "welcome to the meeting" before all the other participants stare at you doing whatever you happen to be doing at that moment. |
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I like the algorithm and also agree that an entirely Voronoified UI would be excellent |
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I have just woken from a dream about the 1980s board game version of Civilisation, where the map was organised a bit like this (not in squares or hexes). |
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