Re: [eigen] Owls

[Mark Borgerding <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those are absolutely beautiful.

One ignorant question ... why Chinese?



On 02/20/2012 09:00 AM, Gael Guennebaud wrote:
> 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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