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The bureau’s roundel on its own site, 2003
Visit Bend · January 21, 2003
In the story: 6. The emblem outlives the club, 1930–2010.
The roundel the Chamber’s visitor bureau had by August 2001, still in place at the head of the bureau’s own site eighteen months later.
Visit Bend redesigned its site between the April 2002 capture and this one. The roundel came across unchanged: narrow letters standing clear of a double ring, above VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU set in small capitals.
The research pass that found this file reported the roundel at about 110 pixels and read the third letter as an arch at high confidence. The file is 163 by 149 and the roundel in it is about 48 pixels across, which gives about 34 pixels of letter and eight pixels to a letter — the same resolution class as the 2002 header. Enlarged fourteen times the third letter does read as an arch, and it is scored so at medium confidence. The reading that settles the family is the City’s 2011 landscape file, where the same roundel is 135 pixels across.
Measured
The bureau roundel, the notched construction. Narrow letters, a notched E and a notched B at the same height, an arched third letter, and rounded corners.
Read at medium confidence from 47 px of letter, which is an upper bound: this drawing's letters run into its ring, and no cut separates them.
Each drawing is reduced to the same thing — the letters BEND, cropped to their own ink, rasterised at a common size — so two of them can be compared by shape alone.
- Device aspect
- 1.042 The roundel’s width divided by its height. 1.000 is a true circle; anything else is an oval, or a photograph taken at an angle. 0.977 – 1.048 across the collection
- Word aspect
- 1.027 The same ratio for the block of BEND letters alone, once cropped to their own ink. 0.927 – 1.862; the high end is lettering set wide rather than stacked
- Figure ink
- 0.434 How much of the drawing is ink rather than ground. A heavy ring and fat letters push it up. 0.169 – 0.728, median 0.493
- Coverage
- 0.350 How much of the normalised square the letters fill once every drawing is reduced to the same size. 0.198 – 0.576, median 0.456
What it most resembles. Two digitisations of a single printing score 0.975, so that is what “the same artwork” looks like as a number.
- The Bend Store sticker 0.495 — different drawings
- Vintage Bend profile rendering 0.468 — different drawings
- Deschutes Brewery, Born in Bend 0.464 — different drawings
Least like it: Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing, at 0.137.
Resemblance is not descent. A high score means two drawings have the same shape. It does not establish which came first, or that either was copied from the other.
Compare this drawing with another · The board · How the drawings were measured