Salvete,
when over the the weekend I found myself incapable of looking at any
more numbers and code, seeing the R logo, I wondered how one would go
about replicating the old-fashioned faux 3D effects it uses.
I thought it would make for a good distraction and exercise to try and
mimic it in SVG as close as possible, tracing the simple shapes by hand
and using layered gradients.
This is the result:
http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo.svg
for comparison, this is the PNG logo at the same size
http://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/Logo/Rlogo-2.png
The SVG is stripped down to 80K and the PNG is 200K.
I also have a version with preserved Inkscape metadata at 140K and a 2K
versoin with only the two flat shapes:
http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo-editable.svg
http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-simple.svg
I thought someone might find a use for these. If yes, just go ahead.
It’s easy to edit these files. Change the color, make them prettier, or
more physically plausible in terms of shading. I just put them under
cc-by-sa.
--Tobias
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