Hmm, I couldn't see the circles in the background until I tipped my laptop LCD downward. That's a bit of an odd effect. In addition, is it just me, or does the curvature on the spiral seem a bit... off? It seems to change sharpness, rather oddly; ideally, it'd be a smooth spiral.
Dylan McCall wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 01:12 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: >> Not sure what it is supposed to represent. The wallpaper would not include >> the >> logo in the middle. I just put it together quickly to show the idea. >> >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/SimpleDarkIbex >> >> I have a couple of other versions as well...I'll post something else >> tomorrow. > > That's pretty cool, Kenneth! An issue I find with a lot of the ibex > wallpapers is that they look like decapitated animals, which Will Not go > over well. (Stuffed animal heads pinned on walls. ...Anyone remember > that scene in Ace Ventura?). > > This one cleverly avoids that by showing the distinctive part of an Ibex > people actually notice and leaving out the bland bits that people can't > figure out what to do with. Also, while there is no Ubuntu logo, the > palette and shape hints at Ubuntu's branding pretty well, which is how > things should be. As for the background, I am not a fan of the > additional circles. Now that my screen brightness is higher, I see that > it kind of repeats the same pattern in the background as in the center, > which hurts your otherwise very striking effect. Perhaps it would be > useful to look at an Ibex's environment for some inspiration as to what > can be done with the background. Alas, just "rocky" probably doesn't > help much... Straight lines, small amounts of vegetation and sharp edges > may get somewhere. > For some reason my rather hopeless imagination is now being invaded by > the Ford "tough" logo. I'd better get out of here before I say something > dumb :) > > Bye, > -Dylan > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
