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Nick

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Posted: 09:42am 27 May 2012

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Here's my first attempt at a Colour Maximite Logo. The idea is to have it boot with this on powerup. This would be followed by the normal Copyright and Version number notices before dropping into the command prompt cursor.

They are within the 8 colour mod spec. (these are only 5 colours)

Which one of these 3 do people find more appealing?

Anyone with a better idea?

Edited by Nick 2012-05-28

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Posted: 10:23am 27 May 2012

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Me and my wife are liking the third one best.
Great job on all of them though.

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Posted: 11:05am 27 May 2012

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The middle one. But I would like to see also other sketches...

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Posted: 11:16am 27 May 2012

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Posted: 11:43am 27 May 2012

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Posted: 11:54am 27 May 2012

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Great job.

For me it is number one. The reason that I like it is that it has a solid simplicity. Also it would be easier to print on the front panel of the box and it would make an excellent logo for the magazine article, web pages, etc.

This will be a hard choice.

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Posted: 12:23pm 27 May 2012

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Third, because it makes the text stand out. It looks significantly brighter than the first.

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Posted: 01:16pm 27 May 2012

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Need to take into account how it would look on different backgrounds. On a white/cream background, would there be a black border?

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Posted: 04:57pm 27 May 2012

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Wide spread of opinions!

I think number 2 may be out because of the whole LCD versus CRT issue. On a CRT it will look great. On an LCD, I'm afraid the LCD upscaler will distort the image and ruin the "scanline" look of the text. Some scanlines will join together , destoying the consitency of the effect.

I'm hinging on #1 for simplicity and clarity although #3 is not far behind.

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Posted: 05:19pm 27 May 2012

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My suggestion

VK4MU MicroController Units

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Hi Nick,

I prefer No. 2 from the options, (dont like No3 at all) but I really don't think any of them quite hit the Mark (sorry Nick), not a complaint just constructive Criticism I feel we can do something a bit more Jazzy.. I am not good at computer art but I am sure others are.. What are the size (pixel wise) we are looking at for a logo.

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Lads/Lassies,

I am not really good at graphic design and I am not sure what this would look like in this forum but it is an animated gif but the color changes can be done by the Pic 32 fairly easilly (I think).

If the colors dont change then save the image file and open in Internet explore to see the effect

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The Back Shed strips off the animation, download this zip file and then open the logo with iE to view it.

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2012-05-28_035522_MM_Logo.zip
Edited by bigmik 2012-05-29

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Looks good bigmik. I don't know if Geoff wants to add much more code than just to display the logo, but if he does, this looks good.

And if Geoff can add intesity control to give us 16 colours, we can go nuts with something even more colourful.

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bigmik said Lads/Lassies,

The Back Shed strips off the animation, download this zip file and then open the logo with iE to view it.

Mick

2012-05-28_035522_MM_Logo.zip

Yeah sorry Mick the image processing of the forum would probably kill the frames in a animated gif.

Another thing to consider with these colour logo's is how they will look in black and white, like when using composite video.

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Regarding composite video... The Maximite Version 2 with colour won't have composite, VGA only...according to Geoff.

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Posted: 11:41pm 27 May 2012

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I like number 1.
A single pixel black edge would be worthwhile if the background is not black.

The flashing GIF version would not do a lot for my attempts to avoid epileptic seizures. Not a great idea.

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I liked very much ZX-Spectrum logo

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Here's another set of designs. Let the voting begin!

My favourite here is the second one from the top.

Edited by Nick 2012-05-29

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Posted: 10:11am 28 May 2012

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Number 1 please Nick!

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brucepython said

The flashing GIF version would not do a lot for my attempts to avoid epileptic seizures. Not a great idea.

Bruce

Hi Bruce,

I appreciate that... it doesnt have to be flashing it can just do one cycle of colour change of letters... or even a colour change (cycling rainbow) on just the first M...

Just trying to jazz it up a little bit..

Nick,

I probably prefer No. 3 then No. 4 Can the colour bar under No 3 be twice as thick?

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