Logos

[Frederic V. Hessman]

I know it's a bit late for additional entries, but how's this as a  
variation on a theme:

Rick

On 20 Dec 2006, at 1:23 am, Rob Seaman wrote:

> We have two votes for:
>
> <voevent.png>
>
> One for:
>
> <voevent.jpeg>
>
> And one for:
>
> <unknown.gif>
>
> Although there seems to be some confusion attributing this to me.   
> I did happen to use the same graphic on the VOEvent II program, but  
> the nice VOEventNet folks on the left coast used it first (well,  
> after Tycho).
>
> Unless the voter was actually talking about the animated GIF of my  
> juggling of celestial objects:
>
> <juggle.gif>
>
> If I can find somebody else to pass clubs, we might attempt a  
> version with torches and Roy in the middle.  I'm sure he won't mind  
> that I'm a bit rusty.
>
> The front runner at the top is Sebastien's:
>
>> I realize I haven't sent you the little something I quickly
>> drafted a while ago, shamefully copying other's logos, simply
>> using a funny dingbats font in GIMP
>
> borrowing rather nicely from the Chaco Canyon Crab SN petroglyph  
> (and perhaps Mike Fitzpatrick's version in the middle, overlaying  
> the angle brackets).  I don't know why, but somehow dingbats seem  
> very appropriate for VOEvent.
>
> Alasdair points out the need for anti-aliasing and a version for  
> dark backgrounds.  Sebastien had noted that color choices were a  
> free parameter.  The font is from a free library, but I'm less  
> concerned about Adobe or MS tracking us down for using Lucida or  
> Helvetica than I would be using some copyrighted photograph off the  
> web.  Perhaps I'll take a whack at reconstituting it in Freehand as  
> vectors instead of the pixelated version from GIMP.
>
> In the mean time, keep those cards and letters coming.
>
> Rob
>

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