Re: [eigen] Owls

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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> 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).

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?

Benoit

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> Gael Guennebaud wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>>    Hi List,
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>>    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!
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>>    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...
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>>    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
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>>    Do you like them? OK to continue in that direction?
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>> 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, ...
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>> gael
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>>    Needless to say, _I_ like them a lot. Just checking if I'm still in
>>    sync with the developer community...
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>>    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.
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>>    Benoit
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