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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Owls
- From: Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:30 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ricard Marxer <ricardmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> wow! those Chinese figurative calligraphy examples are beautiful.
> are you sure the dropbox links are correct?
oops, copy/paste mistake:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_04.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_04.odg
cheers,
gael
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gael Guennebaud
> <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this WE I played with a friend with Chinese figurative calligraphy.
>> Here are some famous examples:
>>
>> http://www.chine-nouvelle.com/chine/insolite/2010-06-29-calligraphie-figurative.html
>>
>> The idea is to draw something by deforming the word. Of course that
>> works better using Chinese characters than our alphabet!
>>
>> So, we tried to make a owl using one the possible chinese word for
>> "eigen" and here are some results:
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_01.pdf
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_01.odg
>>
>> As you can see I also put the logo into some real-word pages so that
>> we can better appreciate their look. This is how I realize that the
>> previous design does not work well for me, so I totally abandoned it.
>> Note that in some of the new designs the hat and book are still there
>> though.
>>
>> My favorite is the group (d) on the first page.
>>
>> gael
>>
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