Ah, those look nice, at least in that size. Well, the knights' eyes look strange in XChu.png, but fine in Lion1.png. Or are the "knights" in XChu actually fairy pieces that have different looking eyes on purpose?
The challenge with the original pixmap pieces was to tweak the smaller sizes to look good, as Metafont didn't do a good job of that (well, maybe the Metafont program was missing "hinting"-style information that would have made them look better), and of course the pieces weren't anti-aliased. The 21x21-pixel "tiny" size needed extensive editing. With today's typically much bigger screens, and anti-aliasing, I imagine SVG looks great for sizes people actually use. On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:02 PM, <h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl> wrote: > Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 9:49 pm schreef Tim Mann: > > .... It would be cool to have the old familiar piece shapes as SVG. > > > > Yes, we do have an SVG set, and I think Arun copied the pieces by hand > from the original xpm pieces (and the extra ones I made for variants). So > they look as similar as you could expect. One obvious difference is that > the SVG pieces are anti-aliased during the rendering, making use of > gray-scales even when they were defined in glorious black & white. > > To get an impression of how the pieces look nowadays, the following two > links are fine. (They are for 49x49 square size, which is not too large.) > > http://hgm.nubati.net/XChu.png > > http://hgm.nubati.net/Lion1.png > > These two screenshots were taken from the Xaw version; The following link > gives a summary of how the GTK windows look: > > http://hgm.nubati.net/gtk > > H.G. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-XBoard mailing list > Bug-XBoard@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard >
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