The history of the Merengue Studios Test Pattern

August 9 2020, 01:31:00 AM

 In Steamed 8.1, a new test pattern was revealed.

This is a test pattern that would be named the "Merengue Studios Test Pattern". This is a early version, used in Steamed 8.1, which came out on May 14th, 2020. However, a few hours earlier, it looked like this.

Note the coloring errors, and the Sable column looking very different. And then, around 9-12 hours earlier, it looked like this.

Very, very, early.



This test pattern was only intended to be only used once, as a easter egg for the rushed Steamed 8.1 project. But it has been used more or less as the official test pattern for SlyAlligator Productions.


2 days later, and the test pattern was tweaked to add more characters.

Note the less-tall gradient.

later on, the collums were compressed to fit two more, although, the size wasn't equal. Note the placeholder colors, and the widget/uniqua collum still being there.

The widget/uniqua column was replaced with a Pablo the Penguin column, and the three new columns were colored.

A unused Sivityigans test pattern exists.

It was never utilized as this was in a earlier stage in Sivityigans' developement, (from mid-May, when the series was renamed to Sivityigans after the introduction of Canberra)


A revised version from early-July recolors the Raymond column to Tasha, and removes the mention of PF94 (this was when PF94 was planned to be shutdown).


This test pattern has started to fell out of use, with recent videos (such as Chaz Randomly Gives up) instead opting for the SMPTE bar.


This is all for now.