Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-03-02 Thread John Baer
I placed under alternate images on the wiki with a more gaseous view of Sulphuric Waves for your consideration. It needs work, just a thought for discussion. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves :) John ___ Fedora-art-list mailing

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 23:16 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-7b831bee9cb2600c56c61ad7745210f7f69dcfe4 That's real

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Máirín Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: I can't help it, but the flames look strange. They're drawn nicely, but the positioning is a little bit unreal. Considering that flame is basically hot plasma + hot air, its direction is usually upwards facing, only when (electro-)magnetic field or air flow is present the

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Camilo Mesias
I don't know if it helps but I was inspired to get hold of some sulphur and make some 'fake rocks' to burn. I've only done one little burn so far. It has to be done outdoors because of the fumes. I plan to do a better one soon but the weather here is terrible right now. There are a few flame

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Cam! Camilo Mesias wrote: I don't know if it helps but I was inspired to get hold of some sulphur and make some 'fake rocks' to burn. I've only done one little burn so far. It has to be done outdoors because of the fumes. I plan to do a better one soon but the weather here is terrible right

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm happy to license the photos under CC. I can make the full resolution ones available (mail me if you're interested) -Cam ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-29 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Camilo Mesias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32132l=92bedid=656174051 I does my heart good seeing the open Fedora process encouraging people to go out and burn stuff producing potentially toxic fumes. The color of the molten goo

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Beckwith
Even little touches like these would get those people who complain about too much blue, to probably be satisfied Nicu Buculei wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Well here's my first attempt:

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/2/27 Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Attached a sketch of what I mean. I do not like the blood. If we could give to rawhide or test release desktopsthat'd be great. I totally get what you are trying to do with the flame. Can you do the flame so that its burning just the left side of

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-1096218c57cd3645e55b094661dd3f7208924a9b Mouldy sulphur... Very constructive, thanks. /sarcasm ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is sort of the kind of thing I was thinking, but very lame in execution: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/flamin.png I like the first attempt more. It just need to be a little more

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-7b831bee9cb2600c56c61ad7745210f7f69dcfe4 That's real close.The halo effect is interesting. Basically what you need to try for is making it

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-7b831bee9cb2600c56c61ad7745210f7f69dcfe4 That's real close.The halo effect is interesting. Basically what you need to

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-7b831bee9cb2600c56c61ad7745210f7f69dcfe4 That's real close.The

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I moved the one on the right to cling along the edge of one of the faces? closer still. The one you moved... the bright blue hot spot lines needs to line up along the edge of that face a little better..bright blue on the

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I moved the one on the right to cling along the edge of one of the faces? closer still. The one you moved... the bright blue hot spot lines needs to line up along the edge of that face a little

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed you attached the darker version to the Waves page [1]. I decided to give it another try and created a version that is neither that light like the first tries nor that dark like

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed you attached the darker version to the Waves page [1]. I decided to give it another try and created a version that is neither that light like the first tries nor that dark like your try. I attached it to the page [1]. I think now is the

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Beckwith
I'm going to go with the darkest blue wallpapers. One of the last 2 under the Round 3 header. I think something that we could change for color for that feature is either some of the shades of the sulfur or perhaps the colors of the waves. Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been meaning to play with the sulphur itself to add a blue glow. Maybe the supporting artwork could have more blue, maybe with grey accents to match, but the wallpaper would be grey? burning sulfur. From

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 09:45 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed you attached the darker version to the Waves page [1]. I decided to give it another try and created a version that is neither that light like the first tries nor that dark like your

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been meaning to play with the sulphur itself to add a blue glow. Maybe the supporting artwork could have more blue, maybe with grey accents to match, but the wallpaper would be grey? burning

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey Martin, Martin Sourada wrote: Well, I noticed it as well, and I like the grey version a lot, but I guess I could not get used much to such colours. I prefer more saturated ones, the grey feels a little depressing, like if it was a sea/sky on some distant inhabited planet composed mostly of

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well here's my first attempt: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-1096218c57cd3645e55b094661dd3f7208924a9b Had another idea to make the flames a bigger part of the concept, hopefully i'll get a

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Well here's my first attempt: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves#head-1096218c57cd3645e55b094661dd3f7208924a9b I like where are you going with this. Maybe make the flame look more like a flame and not like a blue cloud? Even if it not so realistic

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Perhaps. Come to think of it, how is the alternative artwork project going? I think we could provide (a) package(s) with alternative wallpapers for F9? I am not aware about any new developments on this front, but it is trivial to package and include additional

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:16 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hey Martin, Martin Sourada wrote: Well, I noticed it as well, and I like the grey version a lot, but I guess I could not get used much to such colours. I prefer more saturated ones, the grey feels a little depressing, like if it was

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed you attached the darker version to the Waves page [1]. I decided to give it another try and created a version that is neither that light like the first tries nor that dark like your try. I attached it to the page [1]. I think now is the time for us to settle on

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed you attached the darker version to the Waves page [1]. I decided to give it another try and created a version that is neither that light like the first tries nor that dark like your try. I attached it to the page [1]. I think now is the

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Camilo Mesias It's really cool stuff to play with - if you drop the melted sulfur into cold water it turns into a moldable goo Fedora Sulfur when hot is moldable goo there's a compelling allegory here somewhere. -jef

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: As for the issue of being it blue, well, I don't like very much the idea of having different colour wallpaper than blue, not only because I like blue (the Mo's grey/yellow sulphuric designs are great even though they are NOT blue), but mostly because I, and many other

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-23 Thread Hisham Abdel-Magid
I suggest to add sort of Infiniy rays similar to the ones of F8 raising from the Sulphar glow upwards .. with the gradient of a bluish flame.. H.I. On 2/23/08, Camilo Mesias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the wallpapers are great... is the blueness of the palette a given though? I was

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-23 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:44 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I think the wallpapers are great... is the blueness of the palette a given though? I was thinking back to my youth when some sulphur was burned in a science experiment. Nope, I used the blue I felt like being the best... There was an

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-23 Thread Camilo Mesias
That's a really good image, you can see the brownness of the melted stuff and the blueness of the flame. It's really cool stuff to play with - if you drop the melted sulfur into cold water it turns into a moldable goo, which slowly turns back into the yellow form. If you prod the yellow stuff

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-18 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On 2/18/08, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am also *for* a blue alternative (at least as a try) but I find your version a bit too bright. Maybe I'll try myself a darker version. I'm against a blue theme - we've had blue themes for many many releases and I'm ready for something

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-18 Thread Thomas Canniot
Le Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:47:30 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On 2/18/08, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am also *for* a blue alternative (at least as a try) but I find your version a bit too bright. Maybe I'll try myself a darker version. I'm against a blue

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Geiger
I like different aspects of both; the second seems a bit shinier/brighter, while the first is more subdued. The second also has a more distinct horizon, if that is the intent with this artwork. Daniel Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've played a bit with the Sulphuric waves

Re: [Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: I've played a bit with the Sulphuric waves wallpapers and put some (blue) colour in it. I don't know why, but whenever I play with blue colours for wallpapers I always end up with more or less the same hue... I created two versions - one simple (only with modified colours)

[Round 3] Alternative wallpapers for Sulphuric Waves

2008-02-15 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi, I've played a bit with the Sulphuric waves wallpapers and put some (blue) colour in it. I don't know why, but whenever I play with blue colours for wallpapers I always end up with more or less the same hue... I created two versions - one simple (only with modified colours) and one a little