On Fri, January 25, 2008 20:06, Damir Perisa wrote: > hi Thayer, > > Friday 25 January 2008, Thayer Williams wrote: > | My method for making the kernel logo: > | Â 1. Extract a png from the svg sources > | Â 2. Resize and optimize the colour depth with GIMP/Fireworks > | Â 3. Use pngtopnm (after patching our netpbm package) > | Â 4. Use pnmtoplainpnm to finish it off > > i use the following: > > 1 export png in inkscape > 2 flatten image (gimp) > 3 gaussian blur ~=1/100 of image width = pixel (120px final wide pic has > 1.2 px gaussian blur - makes it easier to dither sharp edges later) > 4 resize to 120x120 px > 5 put in indexed colourspace, use FS dithering > 6 export image to ppm respectively to pbm > 7 build kernel to test it (i'm compiling right now)
As said above, gimp exports fine: http://iphitus.loudas.com/arch/ck/misc/logo.png Did that a few years ago as a bit of a joke. Out of curiosity, I did one later that was big enough to only allow 1 line of text. Made a nice fake bootsplash, but of course wasnt remotely practical.
