Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 3:26:15 CDT
From: Eric's NeXT Fortune <fo6r@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: NeXT-icon@gun.com
Subject: FFITs of ...

Here are Some tiffs.  And why Not?

Below are views of a slice (parasagittal) through a bird's brain.  I'm not sure anyone cares, but I'll briefly explain what is in these icons.  The white is where there are many axons, the black indicates the edges of the brain and the ventricle, and the greys indicate various cell groups.  This is a view of the back of the bird's brain, the brain extends further to the
right.  Believe it or not, the shape and overall appearance of these is very similar to the real thing (What you see in a Neuroanatomy class - simply FASCINATING...not ! ).  The .dir.tiff is the "brightfield" view and the .opendir.tiff is a "darkfield" view.

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 21:23:05 +0100
From: Christian_Paulus <chris@yoda.fdn.org>
To: next-icon@gun.com
Subject: Just a crow

The crow exist, je l'ai rencontrÝ :

Just an icon I did for the fun.

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From: Bill Shirley <bill_shirley@wiltel.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 22:33:41 -0600
To: next-icon@gun.com
Subject: Escher Bird Tiles

 Well, in an attempt to make amends for my previous act of plagiarism, I took an old professor's advice.

 "Stealing from one source is Plagiarism; stealing from many sources is research."
 
 So, I've been doing some research.

This is Escher's and I stole it from Gardner.

<EscherBirds.tiff>
but it didn't make too good (discernible) of an icon.  So, here is the larger version (I have much larger, if you're interested) that you can use as a tile.  If you copy and paste many, many of them they will tile when correctly offset.  I didn't play with the edges to make it perfect, but it's pretty good.

<EscherBirdsTile.tiff>

I am quite interested in tiling patterns and may get some more.  I'd particularly like to get some that need to be rotated as well as translated, or even some non-periodic tiles.

Wanting to have some Icons from these I ripped 'em apart.  Erased the white bird to get only the black bird.

<EscherBirdBlack.tiff>

Then I said, "Hey, doesn't WetPaint have all kinds of funky PS operators?"  As no one else was around, I had to answer myself, "Yes, I believe you're correct."  Soo,... I set it for "Dout" and pasted the black bird over the original and wala, the white bird remained.

Ya gotta love that technology.

<EscherBirdWhite.tiff>

Then I said to myself, become quite psychotic, "Go home, you fool!"

 later,

Posted-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:22:26 -0500
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:22:26 -0500
From: Eric D. Engstrom <eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com>
To: next-icon@gun.com
Subject: repost of EscherBirds.tiff and query

Here's a repost of the EscherBirds.tiff icon with the excess (IMHO)
non-alpha'ed white pixels on the outside removed:
<EscherBirds.tiff>