[Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[陳韋任]

Hi, all

  I am not a good painter or an artist, but here you go
  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.png

  Let me know what you think. :)

Regards,
chenwj

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>  I am not a good painter or an artist, but here you go
>  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.png

Neat idea to combine the emu with the Q shape.  It would be nice to
find a high resolution emu, this one is quite pixelated.

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[Alex Bradbury]

On 11 November 2011 11:20, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>>  I am not a good painter or an artist, but here you go
>>  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.png
>
> Neat idea to combine the emu with the Q shape.  It would be nice to
> find a high resolution emu, this one is quite pixelated.

See my link from the other thread:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emu_(PSF).png

Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[陳韋任]

> > Neat idea to combine the emu with the Q shape.  It would be nice to
> > find a high resolution emu, this one is quite pixelated.
> See my link from the other thread:
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emu_(PSF).png

  Actually, I borrow that picture and do some cut/paste. ;-)
I am a M$ user, and as I said I am not good at such things.
If you guys know what free tool available I can use on M$,
tell me. Or you can just take my idea and make it looks better.

Regards,
chenwj

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[Stefan Weil]

Am 11.11.2011 12:31, schrieb 陳韋任:
>>> Neat idea to combine the emu with the Q shape.  It would be nice to
>>> find a high resolution emu, this one is quite pixelated.
>> See my link from the other thread:
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emu_(PSF).png
>    Actually, I borrow that picture and do some cut/paste. ;-)
> I am a M$ user, and as I said I am not good at such things.
> If you guys know what free tool available I can use on M$,
> tell me. Or you can just take my idea and make it looks better.
>
> Regards,
> chenwj

You might use Inkscape for M$ from http://inkscape.org/download/
and the highest resolution image from Wikipedia
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Emu_%28PSF%29.png).

Regards,
Stefan Weil

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[陳韋任]

> You might use Inkscape for M$ from http://inkscape.org/download/
> and the highest resolution image from Wikipedia
> (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Emu_%28PSF%29.png).

  I have tried my best. :-)
  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.svg

Regards,
chenwj

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Michael Roth]

On 11/11/2011 07:24 AM, 陳韋任 wrote:
>> You might use Inkscape for M$ from http://inkscape.org/download/
>> and the highest resolution image from Wikipedia
>> (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Emu_%28PSF%29.png).
>
>    I have tried my best. :-)
>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.svg
>
> Regards,
> chenwj
>

This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you 
do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of 
its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make 
the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" text 
on the right.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[陳韋任]

> This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you 
> do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of 
> its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make 
> the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" text 
> on the right.

  Not sure what you mean, but ...
  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_v2.svg

Regards,
chenwj 

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Michael Roth]

On 11/11/2011 10:18 AM, 陳韋任 wrote:
>> This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you
>> do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of
>> its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make
>> the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" text
>> on the right.
>
>    Not sure what you mean, but ...
>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_v2.svg
>
> Regards,
> chenwj
>

Thanks, that was basically what I was proposing. But on second thought 
it's probably best to just leave out the "emu" text completely.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Alexander Graf]

On 11/11/2011 06:33 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 10:18 AM, 陳韋任 wrote:
>>> This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you
>>> do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of
>>> its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make
>>> the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" 
>>> text
>>> on the right.
>>
>>    Not sure what you mean, but ...
>>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_v2.svg
>>
>> Regards,
>> chenwj
>>
>
> Thanks, that was basically what I was proposing. But on second thought 
> it's probably best to just leave out the "emu" text completely.
>

I agree. The Q with the emu head looks awesome though! Very well done.


Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[David Gilbert]

Yes, the Q with the emu head looks nice - I kind of think the middle
of the Q starts to look nicely like an egg; but perhaps that's
just me.

Dave

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Stefan Weil]

Am 11.11.2011 17:18, schrieb 陳韋任:
>> This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you
>> do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of
>> its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make
>> the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" text
>> on the right.
>
> Not sure what you mean, but ...
> http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_v2.svg
>
> Regards,
> chenwj

Thanks, I have added your mascots to my icon / mascot collection
(http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/), also in different standard sizes.

There is still a lot of unused space around the image, therefore scaling
of the svg file does not look pretty. By fixing the document properties
in Inkscape, you can reduce the image size and remove that unneeded
space.

Here is the script which I used to create the icons from your svg image:
http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/create-icons.sh (it needs a Linux environment).

Regards,
Stefan Weil

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[陳韋任]

Hi, Stefan

> Thanks, I have added your mascots to my icon / mascot collection
> (http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/), also in different standard sizes.
> 
> There is still a lot of unused space around the image, therefore scaling
> of the svg file does not look pretty. By fixing the document properties
> in Inkscape, you can reduce the image size and remove that unneeded
> space.

  Hope this what you want,

  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_no_text.svg
  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg
  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_text_right.svg

Regards,
chenwj

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Stefan Weil]

Am 12.11.2011 11:27, schrieb 陳韋任:
>    Hope this what you want,
>
>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_no_text.svg
>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg
>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_text_right.svg
>
> Regards,
> chenwj

Hi chenwj,

Which character fonts did you use for 'Q' and for 'emu'
in QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg?

It might be interesting to try 'emu' rotated by about -60 degree
(in the direction of the egg shaped body).

If you create the text parts of the image with Inkscape
instead of using a bitmap, it will scale even better.

Kind regards,
Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[陳韋任]

> Which character fonts did you use for 'Q' and for 'emu'
> in QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg?

  Andalus for 'Q' and Berlin Sans FB for 'emu'.
 
> It might be interesting to try 'emu' rotated by about -60 degree
> (in the direction of the egg shaped body).

  This direction?
  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate.svg

Regards,
chenwj

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Stefan Weil]

Am 12.11.2011 12:37, schrieb 陳韋任:
>> Which character fonts did you use for 'Q' and for 'emu'
>> in QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg?
>
> Andalus for 'Q' and Berlin Sans FB for 'emu'.
>
>> It might be interesting to try 'emu' rotated by about -60 degree
>> (in the direction of the egg shaped body).
>
> This direction?
> http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate.svg
>
> Regards,
> chenwj


Yes. I played a little with your svg file, replaced the Q bitmap by a Q text
and added colours. The result is in this file:

http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/mascot/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate_cleaned.svg

You can see the effect of different sizes here:

http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/

If you want to see the effect on QEMU executables, simply
copy http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/mascot/qemu-icon.bmp to directory pc-bios
(same directory as the bios files) and run a QEMU system emulation.

Try http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/mascot/ to see the favicon in your browser.

Regards,
Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 14:06, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> Am 12.11.2011 12:37, schrieb 陳韋任:
>>>
>>> Which character fonts did you use for 'Q' and for 'emu'
>>> in QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg?
>>
>> Andalus for 'Q' and Berlin Sans FB for 'emu'.
>>
>>> It might be interesting to try 'emu' rotated by about -60 degree
>>> (in the direction of the egg shaped body).
>>
>> This direction?
>>
>> http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate.svg
>>
>> Regards,
>> chenwj
>
>
> Yes. I played a little with your svg file, replaced the Q bitmap by a Q text
> and added colours. The result is in this file:

Emus are not green and red. I'd just use black and white, maybe dark
brown for 'emu' text or light brown to fill the 'Q'.

> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/mascot/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate_cleaned.svg
>
> You can see the effect of different sizes here:
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/
>
> If you want to see the effect on QEMU executables, simply
> copy http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/mascot/qemu-icon.bmp to directory pc-bios
> (same directory as the bios files) and run a QEMU system emulation.
>
> Try http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/mascot/ to see the favicon in your browser.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest

[Stefan Weil]

Am 13.11.2011 11:33, schrieb Blue Swirl:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 14:06, Stefan Weil<sw@weilnetz.de>  wrote:
>> Am 12.11.2011 12:37, schrieb 陳韋任:
>>>> Which character fonts did you use for 'Q' and for 'emu'
>>>> in QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg?
>>> Andalus for 'Q' and Berlin Sans FB for 'emu'.
>>>> It might be interesting to try 'emu' rotated by about -60 degree
>>>> (in the direction of the egg shaped body).
>>> This direction?
>>>
>>> http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate.svg
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> chenwj
>> Yes. I played a little with your svg file, replaced the Q bitmap by a Q text
>> and added colours. The result is in this file:
> Emus are not green and red. I'd just use black and white, maybe dark
> brown for 'emu' text or light brown to fill the 'Q'.

A new version with light brown filling and stroke colour, dark brown
'emu' text and enlarged vectorized emu head can be inspected on
http://qemu.weilnetz.de/icon/.

Cheers,
Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Blue Swirl]

2011/11/12 陳韋任 <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>:
>> Which character fonts did you use for 'Q' and for 'emu'
>> in QEMU_Mascot_embody_text.svg?
>
>  Andalus for 'Q' and Berlin Sans FB for 'emu'.
>
>> It might be interesting to try 'emu' rotated by about -60 degree
>> (in the direction of the egg shaped body).
>
>  This direction?
>  http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot_embody_text_rotate.svg

It would be nice to vectorize the upper body part to make it more
clean. It should be made a bit bigger to match the proportions of a
real emu more.

The text 'emu' could arc to create an appearance of a round body, also
the Q shouldn't be so round but squashed.

> Regards,
> chenwj
>
> --
> Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
> Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
> Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
> Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
> Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/
>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 11.11.2011 16:02, schrieb Michael Roth:
> On 11/11/2011 07:24 AM, 陳韋任 wrote:
>>> You might use Inkscape for M$ from http://inkscape.org/download/
>>> and the highest resolution image from Wikipedia
>>> (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Emu_%28PSF%29.png).
>>
>>    I have tried my best. :-)
>>    http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.svg
>>
>> Regards,
>> chenwj
>>
> 
> This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you 
> do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of 
> its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make 
> the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" text 
> on the right.

Or maybe not include the text at all. After all, there is already an emu
in the icon even when there is no text.

Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ICON] QEMU Mascot Contest v.2

[Michael Roth]

On 11/11/2011 10:20 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 11.11.2011 16:02, schrieb Michael Roth:
>> On 11/11/2011 07:24 AM, 陳韋任 wrote:
>>>> You might use Inkscape for M$ from http://inkscape.org/download/
>>>> and the highest resolution image from Wikipedia
>>>> (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Emu_%28PSF%29.png).
>>>
>>>     I have tried my best. :-)
>>>     http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj/slide/QEMU/QEMU_Mascot.svg
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> chenwj
>>>
>>
>> This is awesome! I'm worried how well it will scale down though. If you
>> do the "emu" part on the right side, vertically, between the bottom of
>> its head and top of its foot, you can shrink the Q part a bit to make
>> the emu's body more proportional and leave more space for the "emu" text
>> on the right.
>
> Or maybe not include the text at all. After all, there is already an emu
> in the icon even when there is no text.
>
> Kevin
>

True...larger desktop icons will tend to have the text underneath, and 
for taskbar/url icons there's probably no way to make the "emu" text 
readable...

Plus, if it's just a Q icon you can make a nice big website logo for 
qemu.org using the logo in place of "Q" in "QEMU".