What I meant was, the red button looks like it has 8 horizontal slices. Is there a special reasoning behind cutting it up like this? Seems like it could be a way to preserve a gradient when scaling it vertically, if there was a vertical gradient in the source art.
He's 13. Wow, that dates me, haha. His homework assignment was to build a model of the Roman colliseum, so we used texRipper to grab a vertical strip of arches from a photo, which we printed in a row to stick on the outside facade of his model. Worked really well. He was wowed by the tool, the editable splines and the live…
* 9-Slice is a term Macromedia (now Adobe) coined with Flash and Fireworks * Patch-9 is something I never heard before but is used in the Android world. Either way this is already a old concept. As per request, here is an example of what that red button would behave or look like in different sizes The corner pieces remain…