[ImageJ-devel] new icons and logo

[Adam Fraser]

Hi Gabriel (et al.),

I appreciate your critical eye, and I see the part that you're keying in on.

As Curtis said, the image is near verbatim from the photo (I straightened
out the scope so it's vertical to clean up aliasing).

Anyway, take a close look at the one of the top-down views of the scope.
You'll notice that the objective mount is actually shifted towards the back
side (wrt the logo angle) of the scope. This is the reason that it appears
so strange—it IS actually tilted towards the viewing perspective of the
logo.

This bugs me as much as it bugs you, so I've Attached is a minor revision
that I think confuses the viewer less.

-Adam

PS: I LOVE the other scope image you sent, but unfortunately that'd take
some serious time to rebuild in Photoshop, and there's a good chance that it
won't be very discernable as a small icon. Anyway, today's my last day of
work here, so yeah... tweaks only please! :)

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Gabriel Landini <G.Landini at bham.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Friday 28 Oct 2011 16:11:51 Curtis Rueden wrote:
> > The drawing is essentially verbatim from a photograph that Johannes & I
> > took. See the gallery at:
> > https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/5695175/1//microscopes?h=a9095a
> >
> > Specifically, check out image 14 of 38.
>
> Yes, exactly, if you brighten it, it shows that the bottom brass piece of
> the
> main tube (attached to the revolving piece is oncave (while the logo is
> completely horizontal). And the top one (at the ocular piece should be
> slightly convex.
> As it stands it mixes 2 different perspectives in a single object... but...
> thinking about it, Picasso did not do too bad with that approach :-)
>
> > Unfortunately, Adam is leaving the team, and will not have time to
> develop
> > any more vectorized images. Also, keep in mind that the image must be
> > simple enough to be discernible at various smaller resolutions including
> > 32x32 and even 16x16 (with a little tweaking).
>
> Sorry to hear that... Yes, sure the drawing has a lot of work and maybe
> when
> reduced it is not even noticeable.
>
> Also perhaps with a little of retouching that can be changed to match the
> picture. Are the vector graphics editable and available?
>
> > Perhaps we should do a similar thing for the logo as with the About
> dialog
> > images: let's hold an open contest where people can submit candidate
> > logos, and then the community can vote on the one they like best. What do
> > you think?
>
> Why not!
> Cheers
>
> Gabriel
>
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