Messages in this thread | | | From | "Louis J. LaBash Jr." <> | Subject | Re: Linux Logo prototype. | Date | Fri, 10 May 1996 10:41:17 -0500 (CDT) |
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|On Thu, 9 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: |> |> I was unable to find a globe that displayed more than the Americas. As a |> result I resorted to a map of the world instead.
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|Then we can do a larger version with some more detail (maybe leaning |against a globe of the world, but I don't think we really want to give |any "macho penguin" image here about Atlas or anything). That more |detailed version can spank billy-boy to tears for all I care, or play |ice-hockey with the FreeBSD demon. But the simple, single penguin would |be the logo, and the others would just be that cuddly penguin being used |as an actor in some tableau.
OK, so we have a pudgy penguin sitting on top of the World satiated and bean-bag like. My original Atlas style suggestion couldn't be made anatomically correct, a penguin's flippers, vestiges of wings, are much too short; if for no other reason this makes it a bad idea :-)
Leonard Zuboff's idea of the Earth with a 3-D LINUX banner encircling it is germane as he pointed out: Linux's global development and support. Alternately, the penguin could be wearing a sash with LINUX on it.
Since a spherical depiction of the Earth limits what land masses would be shown, a planar view (projection) might be better. The Hammer equal area or Robinson projections produce a bowl like image of the World showing it in its entirety. Also, this would provide a platform on which the penguin sits.
I'm using the words Globe, Earth, and World interchangeably, that vehicle on which we are all passengers.
References: Oxford Atlas of the World National Geographic Atlas of the World.
Enjoy the weekend. -- Louis-ljl-{LLaBash@eniac.ac.siue.edu | lou@minuet.siue.edu}
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