Dear Tobias, thanks a lot, this looks very nice. I just exported it to PDF and can zoom in and out with great results. I think we should replace the current logo with bitmaps (where necessary) of your version and would the be able to use vector versions wherever possible.
Great work & really appreciated! Best, Fritz > Salvete, > > when over the the weekend I found myself incapable of looking at any > more numbers and code, seeing the R logo, I wondered how one would go > about replicating the old-fashioned faux 3D effects it uses. > > I thought it would make for a good distraction and exercise to try and > mimic it in SVG as close as possible, tracing the simple shapes by hand > and using layered gradients. > > This is the result: > > http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo.svg > > for comparison, this is the PNG logo at the same size > > http://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/Logo/Rlogo-2.png > > The SVG is stripped down to 80K and the PNG is 200K. > > I also have a version with preserved Inkscape metadata at 140K and a 2K > versoin with only the two flat shapes: > > http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo-editable.svg > http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-simple.svg > > I thought someone might find a use for these. If yes, just go ahead. > Itâs easy to edit these files. Change the color, make them prettier, or > more physically plausible in terms of shading. I just put them under > cc-by-sa. > > --Tobias > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
