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From: stef@phoque.info.uqam.ca (Stephane Lussier)
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Subject: PGG Motif (comments)
Date: 12 Mar 1994 12:30:08 -0600
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    Please direct your replies BY E-MAIL to stef@phoque.info.uqam.ca
    or mortel@chose.cam.org.  My NNTP server won't receive news from
    anybody right now.  It's deaf and dead.
 

    Here's my second attempt at the PGG logo with roughly the
    same idea as before: earth shaped iris with a galaxy inside
    it.  This time, I've added stars in the pupil, and learned
    to use the antialiasing and tranparency fonctions of Dpaint
    in order to add some reflection (to make it look round and
    shiny like an eye!) and smooth the edges a bit.  I considered
    Paul's idea of adding what he called the "oval" around
    the eye and found that it's required in order to facilate
    the belief that what you actually are looking at is really
    an eye.  My first idea, although not rejected, was to draw
    a fast sketch-cartoon-like pauper or eybrow on a more
    contained earth-iris/galaxy-pupil.  The mix of style could have
    been interesting.  But after playing around a while, the galaxy
    fell into my eye and striked me as ressembling to the so-called
    "oval" of the eye. So, I enlarged it (ie: redrew it, but larger)
    and put the earth in the white of the galaxy. The result is
    amazingly recursive!

    The small galaxy is taken from a MC. Escher picture (another
    world) I fished one day on the shore of a faraway FTP site.
    I figured if they leave MCE's drawings there, it must be public
    domain in some way and decided to use it, since I thought I
    couldn't be able to draw something approaching a galaxy.
    But after that, I drew a bigger galaxy than Escher probably
    ever did :), I suppose I could resize the larger one to fit
    the pupil, if it makes the lawyers happy.  They look about
    the same, although it's difficult to compare since one is many
    times bigger than the other..

    It's still a draft and I'm not sure wether I could make it
    look better unless I practice my computer drawing talents, say,
    a coupla months.  Not that it's beautiful enough to be put
    on a t-shirt but it's far much less worse than the previous draft.
    The eye is more realistic.  I watched mine in the mirror,
    retained some features, changed to color and put a galaxy inside
    it.  I think at least I have something to work on.  It would
    probably need some simplifications before using it for
    a logo, like converting it to one bitplane. And maybe using a more
    galaxy-like galaxy, although it might kill the "oval" effect.  
    I'll accept any suggestion you might offer.

    This edition of the logo is NOT disguised as a business card.
    How's my orthograph, Paul? :) You know, I wrote the word correctly
    the first time around.  It just didn't seemed right.  So I decided
    to change the place of the 'i' without counsulting my french-english
    dictionary first.  Didn't your mother ever tell you never to
    criticize the english of a frenchman, Paul?  No?  Then she was right
    not to do so.  I learned something, yesterday.  (PS: it's currently
    3:55 AM -- worked on the d*mn logo all day... I don't know why.)
   
    One more thing, I'm sorry if I messed up your favorite continent.
    I am not really good at geography and I still don't understand
    why I got a "best geography student" medal in grade 9.


And now, a preview from my upcoming post:
    
    Title: galaxeye.GIF
    Format: GIF (original was IFF)
    Resolution: 640x400
    Colors: 16 (blues, whites and reds)
    Note: graphic available in most formats -- just ask me!
    

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Stephane Lussier ---------------------------------> stef@phoque.info.uqam.ca