Hi Fredrik, At the moment I am working hard with the Royal Dutch Mint to produce the coin. It is quite fascinating to see money making from the secret inside.
When the stress is over, I might do a blog post about the whole experience and some higher resolution images, as the current ones are lacking details. The coin is for 90% made with python, PIL & pycairo. Some touches were done with Gimp & Inkscape. So no one should doubt any longer that you can make money with free software ;-) Fredrik, don't worry about ordering a coin, if you email me your postal address, I'll happily ship one to you. Most of my work as a visual artist is PIL powered, so I owe you that one ;-) Other people will be able to order it from the coinshop of the Royal Dutch Mint (link at bottom), but probably it will be sold out quite fast: http://en.knm.nl/domains/knm/pages/article.asp?content=11720000000909_999_11650000000011&navid=11650000000014_11650000000009 Best regards, Stani PS For the curious, the following link is the reason why I started learning PIL in 2002. It's a cross-over between 'The Birds' of Hitchcock and Vanitas paintings: http://88.191.26.71/maria/openlayers.html (Those of you familiar with Chernobyl might recognize the silhouet.) Op vrijdag 12-09-2008 om 17:51 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Fredrik Lundh: > this definitely made my day: > > http://vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2008/09/12/python-calculated-coin > > excellent work, stani. and congrats for winning! > > (just wish I could figure out how to order one from here ;-) > > </F> > > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
