Correct, I swirled it too much, that is my point. What are the odds that the blue logo in question swirled their logo pixel-for-pixel the same as Debian's? I believe the odds are low given the couple minutes of work I put into using the tool (Illustrator).
Mike On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:24:34AM -0600, Michael Cassano wrote: > > The message from 2005 seems to indicate it was produced using > Illustrator, > > not Photoshop. > > > > Attached is an image I just created using Illustrator 14.0.0, my goal was > to > > recreate the Debian logo. I used the 'rough charcoal' brush with the > swirl > > tool. I didn't create the original Debian logo but it is clear to me > that > > the same technique was used by whoever created Debian's swirl logo. As > you > > can see, my swirl shares all the attributes of the Debian logo, but is > not > > identical: mine has small three dabs at the end of the swirl in the > center > > and the two dabs on the left of the swirl on the outside. Mine is not > > identical because the swirl path in the Debian logo is not the default, > mine > > had to be tweaked slightly to get as close as it is. > > > > There is no question in my mind that the blue logo under debate is a copy > of > > the Debian logo, followed by a color change. There are too many degrees > of > > freedom (beginning of the swirl path, brush thickness, etc). > > You swirled it too much. Other than that, it's the same. > > Mike >
