I found out last year that there's a german yacht model called 'yoxi' - go for it!
Speaking of wormholes, I don't think personally I could bear any more 'The future=spaceships' as logo concept - unless it was the one from Contact, which was an international collaborative effort (ah, fiction...), pursuing the goal of communication - oh, wait a minute, isn't that like Ooo...?
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:26 am Post subject: Re: Thanks
lashampoo wrote:
Are you THE Edward H. Peterlin?
Last I checked, and according to the IRS, I am. Funny, though, after all this time, being *the* Edward H Peterlin still hasn't helped me pick up chicks.
lashampoo wrote:
I hope I didn't hurt you posting an alternate splash screen.
Of course not! I was just putting out the history of the ship and how the splashscreen came to be, not defending it or anything. I just thought it was a cool wood engraving picture that had a fun BS story that I could make up for it
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: I've created a new sailing ship icon
Actually folks, completely without having seen this thread, I created a new splash screen and icon, mainly because I wanted to learn how to do icon-quality art, and how to make an aqua icon. And... the brown ship icon in my small dock looked rather like bird-poop.
So... this very day I emailed a new ship icon and a new splash image to Patrick Luby, to see what he thinks. Since the use of "NeoOffice" is subject to Edward's permission, I'm not going to post the splash image here, until he's blessed it (or at least said that permission to do what I did is granted).
STOP PRESS - I've just had a reply from Patrick... he likes my work. Sorry I can't show y'all right now - my ISP can't set up my ftp space until tomorrow's office hours...
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject: MS free computer
Just wanted to add my thanks for the great job!
In another topic I was talking about difficulties with Latvian fonts that I had while using NeoOffice/j. Well - I experimented a bit also with the newest (as well as older) MS office and have to say that these people have got the meaning of globalisation all wrong... Latvian characters were simply replaced with _ and _. So I was very happy that I had not bought that (very nicely looking though) MS Office. In NeoOffice the text can be read in any case
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject: Another idea for new Neo/J icon
Hadn't seen this thread and Ed's history of the ship icon until just now, but it set off a lightbulb in my head. Two days ago I visited the Milwaukee Art Museum, which had an expansion built in 2001 by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava. (He's the guy who designed the 2004 Athens Olympic stadium.)
Anyway, the expansion is in the shape of this incredibly futuristic flying/sailing ship -- so if anyone reading this thread is a graphic artist, perhaps these pictures would serve as inspiration: Link #1, Link #2,Link #3. (And a Google search probably turns up quite a few more images if those are too small.) In case it isn't clear from the images, the two wing-like panels are actually opened and closed daily via the attached high-tension steel cables. It is easily one of the most spectacular works of architecture I've seen in a very long time.
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: I've created a new sailing ship icon
foxcorner wrote:
So... this very day I emailed a new ship icon and a new splash image to Patrick Luby, to see what he thinks. Since the use of "NeoOffice" is subject to Edward's permission, I'm not going to post the splash image here, until he's blessed it (or at least said that permission to do what I did is granted).
Patrick forwarded it to me and I dig it. It's still a ship theme, but it definitely looks much more modern. I'm keen to see what other folks think
But I am now *really* looking forward to Patch 6...
Sorry to break the bad news, but the new icons and splash screen won't be in "Patch-6". "Patch-6" will hopefully be out this week, but Beta is still a few weeks away.
Sorry to break the bad news, but the new icons and splash screen won't be in "Patch-6". "Patch-6" will hopefully be out this week, but Beta is still a few weeks away.
Oh well, candy for Xmas, then (if all goes well).. Sort of more suitable anyway.
Joined: Nov 28, 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Colorado, USA
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: I've created a new sailing ship icon
OPENSTEP wrote:
Patrick forwarded it to me and I dig it. It's still a ship theme, but it definitely looks much more modern. I'm keen to see what other folks think
ed
Thanks Edward!
Just so y'all know, the artwork I did is based very closely on the original ship engraving. Essentially, all I did was to paint over it in Photoshop, making it look a lot more solid and vibrant. Plus I did a blue-green sea background using a sequence of Photoshop filters (Filter->Render->Clouds, then Filter->Render->Wind/Stagger/from-the-left, then Edit->Transform->Perspective... try it if you like ).
Then, for an icon, I placed the ship into an aqua icon, which I built from a web tutorial.
So what you'll see is actually an updating of the original imagery, which provides continuity of identity. It's more evolutionary than a new concept. One day we can move on to something else, if that's the way folks want to go.
So... assuming Patrick and Edward want to use it (which seems like it might happen), you'll see it with the next beta release, which is, Patrick says, going to be before Christmas.
As for providing links to it... I'm afraid my ISP's not playing ball at the moment, so I don't have an web-space I can put it into. Edward, do you want to reveal it? (Patrick has the newest rev of the splash image from me as of this evening.)
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:
I can throw things up on the servers here if you need. I'll wait until Patrick forwards the latest stuff along.
The "blue pill" stuff is just a sequence of somewhat themed "ranks" of users. They change based on how much you post. I think you only got two more posts to go b4 it changes (5, 10, 20, ... IIRC is the starting sequence)
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