Tiny gap between top star's lower right arm?

[Scosh]

Okay … I might be going crazy from looking at things for too long, but while doing some work with different colours, I noticed that the gap where the diagonal arms of the stars should meet appear to be a different side on the right than on the left?

They are essentially minuscule … and should only be observable when zooming in ridiculously close, but when just looking at these from afar, I still felt like I noticed there was a different gap on the right side.

I did some pixel-pinching in both Inkscape using the original vectors and made a .png export to check if it was just an artefact of the software and not something that is exported.

Screenshots follow of me comparing them:

Vectors

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The background colour seems to bleed through a tiny bit, which doesn't happen where the two lower stars meet at a 90 degree angle.

In my tests this wasn't so severe or observable with our normal FOSS-AG logo colours, but was more noticeable using different colours.

If you want to compare these for yourselves, the files, including a high-resolution .png, can be found in the current version of our design_playground repository on our Gitea.

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Could this just be a concession of having diagonal lines trying to meet? Or is Inkscape not aligning things perfectly and the pixel values where they should be meeting are actually different/wrong?

Please tell me if I am actually going insane and there is nothing to worry about or see here.

[Scosh]

Na … I'm not going crazy, that gap definitely is there in the export, but it's on both sides, not just on the right:

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[Scosh]

This isn't even completely remedied when you combine the shapes using Union, btw:

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So we definitely need to try to fix this.

[Scosh]

The example files used in the first post can now be found at:

FOSS-AG/design_playground/src/master/social-media/website

on our Gitea.

[fes0j]

I think this could be solved by applying a small border; not just rely on the "fill" part of the svg.
This might be a dirty solution.

[fes0j]

Under further investigation it turns out: the vector for each point of the star varies where they should be the same.
I'll link this to issue #2, this is part of the clean up.
Though this is not enough to resolve this issue :(
Read Inkscape FAQ "There's a seam, or artifact, between adjacent objects sharing the same border, or between patterns"

[Scosh]

Please try this and commit! Let's see what it looks like.

[Scosh]

Closing this for now. Seems a lot better from the machine I'm currently looking at this from. Might re-open if we want to try a different method at a later point or change something about the base design.