Recently a contributor joined the project and came up with an excellent image (seen left) however something became clear with this image which I hadn’t thought of before. Up until the receivement of the image, I’d operated under relatively no rules at all. I’d let you come up with the images as you see fit, as long as it had the number prominently displayed. Up until now I assumed that meant in a manner easy to read, as you would a typical number.

However, Count High contributor Koosie had submitted an image with the number in reverse. I’d never thought about that before, but on first look it was difficult to see what the number was, until the realisation that it was backwards. I asked Koosie something which I’d never asked anyone at that point, to head back to the drawing board and come up with an image which displayed the number a bit more clearly. At first a bit miffed, Koosie agreed on the condition that “if [you’re] ruling out mirrored images, you also have to rule out upside down representations.”

I agreed and added a condition of my own, and as such The Koosie Rule was born and is in immediate effect. From here on out, backwards and upside-down representations of your number can be included in the image, as long as the number in its most prominent form is clearly legible (meaning forward).

Posted by Adam R. Box on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 10:20 pm.