The raptor dinosaurs are the fiercest because of their weapons, their speed and their intelligence. They have been chosen as a symbol because they are pack hunters like the Factor team.
However, since many would have liked to keep the lonely F icon; I have combined the two symbols with a backlit velociraptor in front of a large F. Here's a preview before I turn it into an icon.
[Image removed because of possible copyright infringement]
I just learned that even redrawing a photograph as an illustration could end up in a copyright suit. I'll either have to go out find a raptor who would graciously accept to pose for me or ask the author's permission.
Update: I usually don't surrender easily. Since no raptor was willing to pose for me, I decided to create my own. Refreshing my old 3D modeler skills, I created a low-poly mesh of a dino and posed it. After a first subdivision, I refined the mesh and extracted the outline. Below you can see the screen captures I took at each step.
I did not use any reference for the 3D model on purpose to avoid copyright issues. Here is the current state of the icon on Windows (Vista ready) and Macintosh.
6 comments:
That's a really great icon. I hope we end up using it. Though, you know, the raptor symbol actually came from the XKCD references to it...
I like it.
Can you e-mail me various-size versions? Actually for OS X, I only need 128x128.
mmm..
in case you haven't yet fixed your mind on it,
I realized there was a game,
the one where you have 3 poles and rings of different sizes, and you need to move them all from one pole to the third, you surely know what I mean, it's a kind of logic puzzle
and to solve it you need to think in a stack based way, since that is actually just what it is - a stack.
so perhaps the icon could be this game, or something based on it. what do you think?
personally, I am tired of seeing all those scary things like snakes(python) dinosaurs(your icon) aliens (in lisp) and demons (in bsd).
I appreciate something friendly.
oh I forgot!, doesn't the factor lang website already has this sea-star? it is beautiful
Anonymous,
Thank you for the comment but, as the title says, the community already made up its mind and the winner is...
ahh, ok
sorry I joined in so late :)
well, best of luck with the dinosaur,
and sorry if my previous comment sounded harsh or anything
I have some kind of attraction to the factor language, as if it's a kind of game or challenge to program in stacks :)
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