Topic: Similar Tags

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I've been tagging things recently and can someone tell me the difference between macro and micro tag and worm's_eye_view and low_angle_view?

lolport said:
I've been tagging things recently and can someone tell me the difference between macro and micro tag and worm's_eye_view and low_angle_view?

The macro tag is for when a character is really really large compared to their surroundings, and the micro tag for for when a character is really really small compared to their surroundings.

low-angle_view is for when the viewpoint of the "camera" is low down, like this, while worm's-eye_view is for when the viewpoint like that of a worm crawling on the ground, like this. A worm's-eye_view is always a low-angle_view (all posts with worm's-eye_view are automatically tagged low-angle_view by the site), but not all low-angle_view images are worm's-eye_view.

watsit said:
while worm's-eye_view is for when the viewpoint like that of a worm crawling on the ground, like this.

Maybe my interpretation is wrong but both wiki pages specify worms-eye as being directly below (or very close to,) and it makes sense that way as an antonym for bird's-eye_view, but that example is still a largely-horizontal perspective.
I interpret worm's-eye_view as being more a matter of vertical-perspective rather than merely the viewpoint being close to the ground.
But hey, a big reason I don't tag more is I get caught up on edge-cases. Being a panoramic perspective doesn't helpbut I'd barely call the upper end of that one's perspective worm's-eye, and tagging for that is near-nonexistent and spread between panorama and panoramic

Maybe the prevalence of panoramic and multi-point-perspective elements in worm's-eye posts are confusing some taggers? (The top of this is distinctly worm's-eye but the bottom is merely low-angle)
But there's distinctly more than one post I wouldn't call vertical enough.

lolport said:
the difference between macro and micro tag

macro = Character is significantly larger than the environment around them suggests would be normal
micro = Character is significantly smaller than the environment around them suggests would be normal

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