Re: [eigen] another idea around owls

[Ronnie Tucker <ronnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

This sketch is based on the 'Engineer Owl' theory.   :)

Here, we've caught him as he's about to clock off for the day and 
someone's asked him to do one last job. This is his 'are you crazy?' 
look.   :D

As ever, all comments welcome  :)





Benoît Jacob wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Just another idea for the artists out there (Hi Steve! Make sure to register 
> to this list if you want to receive further mails!)
>
> Yesterday I was coding very technical things for eigen and some picture 
> occured to me.
>
> Deep down in the internals of eigen, the hard work is getting done by... owls.
>
> You could see Eigen as a big machine or factory, with little engineer-owls 
> operating it... it could even be very rudimentary, powered by dozens of silly 
> owls pedaling like crazy... or just frenetically flying around being busy 
> with 10 different things at once. They could be silly as in "hey let's pull 
> that lever, I don't know what it does but it'll be fun... oh noes i made the 
> factory explode!"
>
> If somebody made one, I'd love to use such a picture in a "Eigen Internals" 
> documentation section. So you see there's work for more than one artist as 
> besides the mascot it'd be super-cool to have that kind of illustrations in 
> the documentation. But I'm also saying this to explain my point of view on 
> owls. The mascot owl should be emblematic of the hard-working owls in the 
> eigen factory. Both kind-of-wise (operating a math factory, after all) and 
> silly/desperate/frenetic/enthusiastic as there's just too much work in eigen 
> for those poor little owls. I think I've unconsciously been thinking about 
> that for a while and that's what I really mean when I asked for owls that are 
> both wise and silly.
>
> This is very compatible in spirit with the owls on the 2nd image sent by 
> David. Also the engineers idea is very compatible with Ronnie's beta2.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benoit
>   

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