[H-GEN] Logos.

[Raymond Smith]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Robert Brockway wrote:
> I agree.  Perhaps a few of us could take him to 'all you can eat' pizza
> hut and talk over some ideas.

Sounds good. Some time after Christmas I guess, or at a meeting[1]. To
summarise the preceding conversation; under each point I've written some
comments. 

> Colour and Effects.
>	* The lense flair is too much.
>	* Perhaps another effect could be used.
>	* Hard to see on B&W.

I'm inclined to agree, although the reason he added the flare was that the
metalic platypus was hard to see! Robert, did the humgold come out okay?
Its very hard to get images that use colour well and look good in
Greyscale. Was it just indistinct, or did it look terrible? 

> Design Issues.
>	* Logos should be fairly simple. (And this one is, except
>	for the lense flair.)
>	* Bubbles arranged as a Southern Cross would be cool.
>	* A stretched banner style version would also be good.

Right. I think the logo is simple except for the lense flair which, in
Daniels words, "was added to spice up things". The southern cross thing is
cool. Wrt the stretched banner, we should be careful to try to do some
stuff (resizing, stretching, etc) on our own because Daniel's computer[2]
is heavily used as it is. 

> Daniel has earned his lunch.

Cool. I'm sure he won't mind fixing the logo up, but I think we should be
prepared to chuck him another lunch or some cash. It does take a
significant amount of time to render humlogo.jpg (40minutes). And don't
try to argue with him about optimisations -- he knows them! (Not that I
would argue about something and get egg on my face...) 

I'll forward on the email to him. And we shall see what happens. It is
easier to change a programmer's coding style than it is to tell an artist
what to do. ;-) I'm sure he'll be pleased by the very positive responses
(esp by Andrae). It's allways good to get some positive reinforcement.

Cheers all,

Raymond.

[1] Actually a meeting would be good --- I'm trying to convince him to
keep his 486 when he gets his new Pentium to run U*NIX and PovRay to do
his rendering rather than having just Windoze/95 or Windoze/NT. He likes
CLI type interfaces so were half way there. ;-) 

[2] An i486-DX4-100 with 64Mb, running Windows95. It actually gets more
real use than my home box.

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