I’ve been thinking along similar lines. I can’t think of a way to make birefrigerence work in a logo (e.g. [3]) but I sketched some ideas[4] of using making a block of calcite look like a block of quartz, or incorporating a diagram of refracted rays (somewhat reminiscent of the dark-side-of-the-moon image, I know).
The middle logo is probably my favorite. With a nice font and use of colors/negative space I think it could work. In the last picture I was trying to capture the idea of data being refracted through multiple rules/operators. It’s not scientifically accurate because once light has been split based on its polarization you can’t split it again (at least not in the same optical plane). But hey. Julian [3] http://sciencelearn.org.nz/var/sciencelearn/storage/images/contexts/a-fizzy-rock/sci-media/images/calcite-crystal-birefringence/764770-2-eng-NZ/Calcite-crystal-birefringence.jpg [4] http://www.hydromatic.net/calcite-logo-sketch.jpg > On Mar 8, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Jason Altekruse <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have done a little bit of design work in the past. If you want to take a > look at some images of calcite to find one that you think would make a good > logo I can try to make a reasonable looking vector version of it. > > This is the closest thing I could find to the current logo [1] > > Looking at the image on the wikipedia page I noticed that calcite has this > cool refractive property of duplicating the image of something viewed > through it. I might be able to do something with a duplicated apache logo > seen through calcite or something, but I'm not sure how well this would > translate. [2] > > [1] - > http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/128619965-calcite-the-mineral-form-of-calcium-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=wrqSmEN6M2wFPaQNioKGnN2at8ZHAB17TKRacABqxGumShUCi269h5%2FgLlMYK9j4 > > [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcite > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (and so it doesn't go un-said..) >> >> Thank you for the logo work you have done in the past, and continue to do >> now. >> >> >> Julian Hyde wrote: >> >>> I would be delighted if someone took on the task of creating a logo. >>> >>> Julian >>> >>>
