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12:01 AM

@ZachSaucier ya wasn't even paying attention.. I wont lie, lol

...been drooling at medium format cameras lately... :/ there just doesn't seem to be an affordable way into it xD a digital back for a film Mamiya 645 is only $25000 or so...

a decent film scanner is about 1500...which sounds easier lol

Darth_Vader

@johnp ya good luck with that. If I could stop time Id also add photography but I dont even take pics on my phone

johnp

yeah...it's an expensive thing to take up, but it seems like the one medium where i can illustrate quickly and efficiently

Darth_Vader

ya I have a friend that took it up. Dropped a 2k camera and broke it.. was like.. WOOOOW

johnp

oh nooo

id have to insure the hell of whatever i buy

Darth_Vader

12:12 AM

they did. Insurance doesn't cover accidental damage.

johnp

what does it cover! :O theft only i guess

that's horrible

Darth_Vader

yep

I think the insurance company finally payed since they never filed a claim before

johnp

one thing that bugs me a lot lately is how dependent designers are on technology

if my computer decided not to turn on one day, my life would end

Zach Saucier

@johnp backups, backups, backups

johnp

i dont want to be dependent on a machine to be financially viable lol

i know, i do but still, the principle of it...

Darth_Vader

12:15 AM

@ZachSaucier I have three NASs, lol

not to mention several external drives

but I always get my gear around Oct-Dec for all the deals

Zach Saucier

dorotapankowska.com/13-animals-13-circles.html where'd that icon-design-from-circles question go? haha

johnp

lol did they delete it?

i think i'd probably do that to tbh xD

or I wouldn't use the real one in the first place

Darth_Vader

12:31 AM

later

johnp

@Darth_Vader later, have a good'un

3 hours later…

Zach Saucier

3:35 AM

Ay, the Worldbuilding designer listened to my suggestion about the logo :)

A: Worldbuilding Site Design

Make the world in the logo a little bigger. From a visual perspective, the world in the logo could be a little bigger to make it have equal weight to the other letters in my opinion, especially in the non-colored version. Here's a rough, low quality example of what it'd look like (top - origina...

I even refer to a GD post I made :D

8 hours later…

Vincent

11:44 AM

Ah. Memorial Day. The room is ours, fellow non-Murricans! :D

Vincent

12:08 PM

@Jenna I agree with your assessment of graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/71769/…, but I'm not going to reverse @Darth_Vader 's closing without taking it up with him first. Thanks for the heads-up!

PieBie

hey @Vin! Is it raining as much there as it is here?

Vincent

@PieBie nope, it's dry here

PieBie

oh, lucky. In BE it's like someone just opened heaven's floodgates on us... :s

Was I correct in calling him out btw? I think a user of his rep should know better:

Q: GIMP, match images based on shared point

I am not a graphics design person and I think I may be looking for the correct language to ask the question more than anything. I have two maps that I cannot get to match up (scales are incorrect or they were scanned incorrectly. On the maps there are common points shared by both e.g. a buildin...

gimp

Vincent

12:23 PM

I see no wrong in what you wrote

A bit of exmplanation with that link is very welcome, @Pie

PieBie

k thanks, I'm always weary of calling out other users, because I always feel like I'm such a captain Know-it-all

Vincent

But in his case, flagging as too broad is the way to go

PieBie

indeed. Gonna leave it to him. After that, comments can be cleaned for my part.

Vincent

I'll add a stock comment for low-effort questions and leave it at that. Thanks for the heads-up

If I vote for 'too broad', I hammer it close. The problems of a mod :P

Vincent

12:56 PM

wow I see what you mean @Pie

PieBie

@Vincent yeah, just had to call the fire department because our cellar is overflowing °_0

Vincent

oof!

wet feet!

PieBie

yeah, not cool. So here's to getting any work done today...

Vincent

1:37 PM

@Pie Avondvierdaagse got cancelled, though, due to the predicted weather

haven't seen that happen before. Is the weather getting worse, or is society more skittish?

any damage to the office?

PieBie

That's too bad, Avondvierdaagse looks like fun (though I've never participated myself)
Both.

For now no, though the smell is godawful

Vincent

bring out the pine smell sprays

Luciano

2:01 PM

Hi all.
anybody near Sittard? I have to travel to there this evening... Hope it won't rain much :$

Vincent

@Luciano It will

at least, prediction animations I saw show intermittent but heavy rain and lightning in that area for the entire evening

Luciano

I was hoping to get there back and home dry

Vincent

you can always hope ;P

2 hours later…

Zach Saucier

4:00 PM

I tried to write another design-focused non-implementation question, but I seemingly can't come up with one that I don't know how to answer myself. Hopefully it's still useful for people :P

Let me know if you guys think it's a bad question, I'm fine with turning it into a blog post of mine

1 hour later…

Darth_Vader

5:02 PM

@ZachSaucier why not make it and still answer it? still better then How-to's

Zach Saucier

I did :P

waaark.com/vision - delicious transitions

Darth_Vader

is that yours?

Zach Saucier

nope, though it's something I could do

you'd just have to pay me for it :D

because that's a lot of work

Darth_Vader

Ive want to build something like that for my next personal project

Zach Saucier

The type of thing I love to do is make tools for making things like that easier to make

but those are even more work

Darth_Vader

5:05 PM

ya I find that is very re-warding

does SO have a tag for DRY?

Darth_Vader

5:33 PM

@ZachSaucier I have a debate for you, does id come before class, lol

Zach Saucier

@Darth_Vader yes

Darth_Vader

@ZachSaucier ill let you know when I post after some more attempts.

joojaa

5:54 PM

Zach Saucier

hola

joojaa

do you think my edit is overkill?

Q: How are these swirly, line frames made?

I love and have always been mystified by this kind of swirly design. After +10yrs working as a graphic designer, I still can't wrap my head around how those are done. Geometric curved design in general. How do they connect their different parts so seamlessly? It can't be a single piece made ...

adobe-illustrator vector line-art technique

Zach Saucier

I think it's more than deserved but not overkill

joojaa

You know @ZachSaucier that my initial thought on the fact that he told us he has been doing this for 10 years and yada is a bit unprintable

Zach Saucier

what do you mean "unprintable"?

ya, it's kind of silly

Darth_Vader

6:29 PM

@joojaa great answer.. i now want to make sqiggly line

joojaa

Yeah it was actually fun to do, unfortunately i was halted by having to pick the kids up

Zach Saucier

dang kids

Darth_Vader

@joojaa ha mine were gone all weekend, bachelor weekend!

joojaa

gotta go and sing a bedtime story

Zach Saucier

@joojaa Cute mustache

joojaa

6:34 PM

yeah

joojaa

6:45 PM

After all that work one could have just graphed the function:
20*cos(t)-10*sin(5*t+PI/2)
20*sin(t)+10*cos(5*t+PI/2)

Zach Saucier

@joojaa not everyone thinks in terms of functions :)

joojaa

@ZachSaucier no but it is easier to repeat

Zach Saucier

agreed

joojaa

Do you use my graphing script by the way?

Ive been trying to get a combo box done so that you could have many presets stored for later reference. But i would need to redo most of my gui

Zach Saucier

I don't know what script you're talking about nor do I have much of a reason to use any graphing tool :P

joojaa

6:56 PM

bitbucket.org/joojaa/jooillustratorscripts/overview

the jooGraphFunction script

Zach Saucier

I don't even have Adobe programs any more, haha

joojaa

Zach Saucier

I'm such a designer, I know ;)

joojaa

there is a graphing tool in Inkscape

Zach Saucier

I only use graphical editors for assets on personal projects, which only come around like 3-4 times a year

joojaa

6:59 PM

Yes i understand that

Zach Saucier

that's why I'm so bad at using them, haha

joojaa

Well not everybody need to do those things.

Zach Saucier

'course

joojaa

I do a lot of illustration and im mechanical engineer i do not have to.

Except that when I dont they come saying couldn't you draw a picture... We know you can.

Zach Saucier

haha

joojaa

7:09 PM

is there a HTML controller for matrixes? @ZachSaucier

i kinda made one but it sux

Zach Saucier

what do you mean, "HTML controller"?

joojaa

something like this

copy it down im deleting the link

Zach Saucier

go for it

... 1 min, got to do some stuff for the fam

joojaa

I really wouldn't want to build my own

Zach Saucier

I mean you could use a table

joojaa

7:20 PM

yes but i was more after the whole shebang, able to math typeset insert text and udate visualisation. But i wouldt want to maintain the code...

But yes i will switch to a table

@ZachSaucier is the helsinki logo question a duplicate of:

A: How do I create a depth illusion effect with a spots pattern in Illustrator?

How about doing it manually? You could print out dotted array in appropriate aspect ratio, manually fold printout to desired effect, photograph under well-lit conditions, threshold it in Photoshop & get paths via magic wand selection & import to Illustator & use pathfinder to isolate / colour.