I would like to work on this task.

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I would like to work on this task.

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Yatharth, hopping around to a lot of different tasks frequently usually makes it much more difficult to complete any task.  I recommend committing to a task, any task, and working on it for at least a day before moving on to something else.  If you join our IRC channel or mailing list, you can get interactive help and answers to questions more easily.  Cheers!

One, sorry for the hopping around. I was extremely nervous, but I'm going to see tasks through now.

Second, I should just model the 2-D logo, right? Not the 3-D one? And should the text be there? If so, what font should it be in? I didn't find any page on BRL-CAD giving the logo specs. I'll extract the dimensions and colors, but I'd like to know this info also. 

10x for the support, and sorry again.

2-d logo would be good. 

Designing just the logo would be statisfactory, but adding text along with logo would prove better. Refer the following link for logo reference

http://brlcad.org/images/angelov_256.png

And for the dimesions and fonts, it's completely your own decision.

As the logo would be in css we can easily increase the dimesions or change fonts if there is any need/demand.

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I have created a crude approximation (necessary sacrifice for lack of SVG due to CSS limitations) in SCSS (recommended in the description) of the 2-D BRL-CAD logo without text.

I am working on adding the text. Pleae tell me if the logo looks too off.

Is it OK? 10x :)

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Yatharth, that's looking fantastic, but there's only some slight issues with how you used "background" shapes.  Your browser probably defaults to gray, so mine (which is defaulting to white) shows something ... interesting.  See if you can fix it:

http://brlcad.org/tmp/csslogo.png

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I tried to see brlcad.html in both Chromium and Firefox and I got virtually no display. Do you know what's causing the issue? Can you fix it?

Cheers,

Andrei

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The bug was caused by a stupid typo while declaring the external CSS file. Chrome glazed over it, but the other browsers barfed. Now it's fixed.

The code should work in Chrome, Chromium, Firefox 4 and IE 9 (IE won't have the nice linear gradient, though).

I added the text in a free font that closely matches the one used in the original logo. I also refactored my code and tested in multiple browsers.

A comparison shot is uploaded 'difference.xcf'.

Yatharth,

Nice work.  This is good enough to close the task, but more work will be needed to actually use this.  Here are a few issues identified:

The connections between the circles do not line up exactly causing little discontinuities where it should be a smooth transition.  Also, you "fixed" the gray circles I mentioned earlier by making the background gray.  That's ignoring the issue.  We want something that can work with any color background without having to be manually specified (i.e., transparent).

If you're interested in taking things further, please let me know and we can work up another task to address those remaining issues.

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I would be interested, but I don't think I can solve these issues:-

• you mentioned there are still small discontinuities. Do you really think that the outer edge of the gears can accurately enough be modelled simply by placing 2 equal-sized circles next to each other?


• you also mentioned that you want to have a transparent background. I do not believe that is possible with my current approach as it oncolves cutting off sections of circles with another solidfilled circles. Having the background as any solid color (or indeed, a gradient also) is no problem; but for transparency, are there CSS tricks that will let me show what's beneath 2 or 3 layers below?

What do you think? Could I solve these problems with the approaches mentioned? If not, what could I use?