Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 23:41:43 -0700
From: "Robert W. Kieffer" <kieffer@gemstone.com>
To: next-icon@gun.com
Subject: Escher Objects
Reply-To: kieffer@gemstone.com

Here's a couple of exercises in gradation.  All the cartoons that have been getting posted were making me a little slap-happy... I needed something a little more analytical.  :-)

'Seems like the most appropriate use for these would be as a .dir/.opendir pair for a Projects directory!  :-)

You'll have to forgive the proportions.  I wasn't too concerned with the exact geometry.

If anyone cares, these are freely entered into the public domain.

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Robert Kieffer - kieffer@gemstone.com - NeXTMail welcome
Gemstone Systems, Inc.
19616 Redbeam Ave.
Torrance, CA   90503

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>