Re: [eigen] Owls

[Rohit Garg <rpg.314@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since we are discussing our favorite colors for eigen-shed, I'll point
out that in my country, owls symbolize moronic-ness of the highest
order.

/ducks for cover












/peeks to see if the sniper fire has stopped

Personally though, I find them cute. :P

/runs and hides again

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2010/3/3 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2010/3/3 Mark Borgerding <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> > I tend to agree with Gael.  The owls are very nice, but the complexity
>>> > of
>>> > the hand-drawn lines are not easy to reproduce and make it a bit
>>> > cluttered.
>>> >
>>> > I made an attempt at capturing the style of the silly professor in a
>>> > logo,
>>> > but I'm not a very good artist.  I fear it looks a bit like Tux in a
>>> > snowsuit.
>>> > http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/images/Silly_professor2.jpg
>>>
>>> Well you aren't a great artist (neither am I!!) but your idea in
>>> itself sounds good to me: by stylizing (is that proper English?) the
>>> existing owl into simple vector graphics, it should be possible to
>>> create something that's simultaneously modern/abstract ... while still
>>> being cute/stupid (e.g., like you do, by keeping the silly hat).
>>
>> Yes this is what I had in mind, only change the style. The overall idea was
>> really cool.
>>
>>>
>>> I have a vague idea of what could be cool: a black-on-white vector
>>> shape of the main outlines but with a "calligraphic" feel, one should
>>> feel the movement of the pen, think chinese calligraphy... does that
>>> make sense?
>>
>> This way or another, I'm everything but an artist, so I cannot tell what
>> could work and what couldn't before seeing it. unfortunately...
>
> Same for me, actually forget about the "calligraphy" part :) i'm sure
> that David will have ideas about how to stylize his own owls...
>
> Benoit
>
>>
>> gael
>>
>>>
>>> Benoit
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Gael Guennebaud wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx
>>> >> <mailto:jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>    Hi List,
>>> >>
>>> >>    I just got back in touch with David Benjamin, who had drawn our owl
>>> >>    pictures 2 years ago. Indeed, with Eigen 3 on the horizon, I was
>>> >>    thinking that some new graphics on our website would be very
>>> >> welcome.
>>> >>    He's still interested in Eigen (actually using it) and potentially
>>> >>    available to draw owls!
>>> >>
>>> >>    But before asking him to, I'd like to check with you if our original
>>> >>    vision for Eigen's mascot is still in line with the Eigen developer
>>> >>    community. Indeed, our mascot dates back to March 2008...
>>> >>
>>> >>    Let's give again this link which has most of the owls that David
>>> >> drew:
>>> >>    http://download.tuxfamily.org/eigen/owls/contest/David_four_owls.jpg
>>> >>
>>> >>    Do you like them? OK to continue in that direction?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I still like the idea of a owl, and having such a series of 4 variants
>>> >> is
>>> >> really cool. Now, honestly I've never really liked the style of the
>>> >> drawing.
>>> >> Don't misunderstand me, the drawings are good, but for a different
>>> >> context.
>>> >> IMO they do not work very well as a logo and/or to illustrate a
>>> >> website. I'd
>>> >> prefer something more modern, abstract, ...
>>> >>
>>> >> gael
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>    Needless to say, _I_ like them a lot. Just checking if I'm still in
>>> >>    sync with the developer community...
>>> >>
>>> >>    If you are interested in a storyline, here's one: Eigen is a big
>>> >>    clunky steam machine and is actually manned by an army of stupid
>>> >>    little engineer-owls who work frenetically in the lower levels.
>>> >>
>>> >>    Benoit
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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-- 
Rohit Garg

http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/

Senior Undergraduate
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay