Re: [eigen] Owls

[Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Victor Liu <victor.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't like 4 in the way that the letter spacing is so non-uniform. I
> prefer simplicity so 1 is better than 2, imo.

I agree with you and my new proposals took that into account. (hopefully!)

> Has anyone considered the
> possibility of making some letters parts of the owl shape? If you erase
> enough of the owl, it looks like an 'e' or a 'g' (see attached). Also, the
> "eig" part of eigen is then nicely symmetric if you want to make it like an
> own face. The 'g' even has a little horn already.

funny, this what my new proposals do but with Chinese characters.
During this experiments I also tried with the shapes of "e i g e n":

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_05.pdf

but that's not really convincing.


gael

>
> -victor
>
>
> On 2/19/2012 2:57 PM, Adolfo Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Gael
>>>> Guennebaud<gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi owls ;)
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> let me resurrect this very old thread about a new logo. We clearly did
>>>>> not make it for 3.0, but we still have a few weeks before 3.1...
>>>>>
>>>>> In my opinion we need at least to version of the logo. One which which
>>>>> would fit into a square format where the word "eigen" does not
>>>>> necessarily have to appear, so typically a simplified version of the
>>>>> current mascot. A second one, with a large format that mostly contains
>>>>> the word "eigen" with a small version of the logo somewhere. These two
>>>>> version answer two different use cases. In both cases, they should not
>>>>> contain more than 3 colors.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm very bad at drawing, but I still gave it a try. In the links
>>>>> below, you will find a pdf of my attempts, and if you want to play
>>>>> with them yourself there is also the source file (openoffice format).
>>>>> They are only some initial tries to get some feedbacks and perhaps
>>>>> motivate some of you to propose improved versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_01.pdf
>>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_01.odg
>>>>>
>>>>> Please be careful at the scale you are watching them because they are
>>>>> supposed to be small....
>>
>>
>> You mean small as the current logos in the wiki and doxygen
>> documentation, right?.
>>
>> The text I like the most is the one on page 4, 1a. Regarding the owl
>> drawing, I always liked a lot the original owl, but I don't like much
>> how it looks in its simplified version with less colors/detail. You
>> can see the owl if you're looking for it, but it's not that obvious.
>> This motivated me to spend some time drawing owls, and the better
>> results are attached to this message. They are basically four
>> variations of the same idea:
>>
>> 1. The basic idea.
>> 2. Same as 1., but with a couple of additions: the owl is perched and
>> has a fluff of hair in the head.
>> 3. Head-only. This is the only way I could achieve a more square
>> aspect ratio ;-)
>> 4. Variation with the text of Gael's document, page 4, 1a. Lines are
>> colorized to match the text's color scheme.
>>
>> Some notes:
>> - Feedback welcome :-), feel free to edit the attachments.
>> - The original post states that the mascot logo should be "one which
>> which would fit into a square format". Mine doesn't :-(
>> - The drawing will probably not scale well to really small sizes, like
>> a favicon.
>> - I haven't spent time coming up with a good color scheme for the owl.
>> - The general shape of the owl is inspired by this owl-drawing lesson:
>>
>> http://www.drawinghowtodraw.com/stepbystepdrawinglessons/2010/01/how-to-draw-owls-with-step-by-step-drawing-lesson/
>>
>> According to the site (read posts at the bottom), it's OK to create
>> derivative work from the images in the above link and use them, even
>> in a commercial design.
>>
>> That's all for now. Cheers,
>>
>> Adolfo.
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As you can see, the initial owl if very recognizable. Also notice in
>>>>> page 2 the variants without the pen. I think the pen is too tiny for
>>>>> our use cases.
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't censure yourself, at this point everything is open to discussion!
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> gael
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> - Rob Falck
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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