Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Call for an Icon

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You wrote:
>     >   http://www.yuv.info/~wavexx/octothing.png
>
>     > Well, it lacks some suckers.. but I'm really too tired today.
>     > If it looks appealing to some, I can finish it.
>
> Cute.  I like how, in that pose, the tentacles are reminiscent of the
> horns on the GNU gnu.  Will it scale down well, e.g. for use as the
> graphic on www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch?  or on a desktop?

Unfortunately (heh), I've done it with the Gimp(tm) at 1024x768. It
won't scale higher, but it can be reduced quite easily.

> Of the two front-most tentacles, the one on the right looks like it's
> not really attached to the octopus.  I'm no artist but the solid black
> line on the "western" edge of the tentacle doesn't look quite right to
> me.  And I think the suckers should be smaller --- at least in the
> dimension of height relative to tentacle.

Right.

> An octopus is potentially a very cool character to use for arch.
> They're pretty smart, I've heard.  They're also very flexible so you
> can pose it all sorts of ways, should the need for that come up.
> And, if they don't like you, they just spew a cloud of "ink" at you
> and scoot away.

That's what the tla lock-octopus command is for ;).

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