setup.exe opening page graphic
Warren Young
warren@etr-usa.com
Thu Aug 18 21:07:00 GMT 2011
On 8/17/2011 9:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 16 13:28, Warren Young wrote:
>
> it would be fun to have a big logo
> using the card box with a big 3D Cygwin C jumping out of the box on
> the setup start screen.
Like this?
http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/from-box/animation.webm
If you don't have a WebM player (Firefox, Chrome, probably VLC and
MPlayer...), here's the much-bigger uncompressed AVI file:
http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/from-box/animation.avi
If you don't want to add an animation to setup.exe -- which would be
spiffy, IMHO -- you can pick an individual frame from that same
directory on our web server. I can apply treatments like motion blur to
bring back some of the feel of an animation:
http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/from-box/frame0009-mblur.png
Notice that there is no floor under the box in this still frame, and no
infinite void beyond. That's the intended presentation, so it blends
into the dialog background.
I can do the same for the animation, too. The environment pieces have
to be there during rendering for various technical reasons that would be
boring to explain. I've made masking them out after the fact possible,
but at 15 fps x 1 second, it's more work than I want to go into right
now for the animations and stills.
>> The licenses and ownership of all the pieces that went into the
>> rendering allow me to provide renders to the project free and clear.
>
> Hmm. That's not exactly what I understand as free or open license.
Unless you feel the Cygwin project must have the 3D model, I don't see
that it has to be purely open source itself.
The entire publishing industry is based on content licenses like the DAZ
one behaving as I claim. Fonts, clipart, stock photos, etc. all depend
on this sort of license.
>> The recycle icon on the box's front is like the hippo model: I can't
>> give you the vectors, but anyone with a dingbat font installed
>> probably has a direct substitute on hand. I suppose it would be
>> legal to give out the raster texture I made from the vectors.
>
> Is there a chance to replace that?
Okay, fine. I'm using this now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recycling_symbol.svg
You can also find it at U+267B in some free fonts, such as DejaVu.
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