[H-GEN] Logos.

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Raymond Smith wrote:

> 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. 

I think seperately to a meeting, as we could spend a couple of hrs in the
nice air con of the pizza hut :)
 
> 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?

It was easier to see than the first one, with the B&W one being the best
of all in greyscale (imho).

> Its very hard to get images that use colour well and look good in
> Greyscale. Was it just indistinct, or did it look terrible? 

I agree.  I have a nice fvwm2 colour scheme in greyscale.  You should see
it in colour (kinda orange and yellowish :)

> > 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...) 

Yep, I'm sure we can work something out wrt another lunch :)
 
> [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. ;-) 

Cool. :) We can show him the power of unix at a meeting for sure.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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