From arj@nvg.org Thu May 27 01:49:35 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 27 May 2004 01:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67] ident=[D6ha52k1LO381awtuhXBKNshOLF16rq4]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BTGZp-0004bT-1m for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 01:49:25 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.68]:23760 "EHLO hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]" whoson: "-unregistered-") by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 May 2004 10:48:58 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:48:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban Flag In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-archive-position: 7978 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, 26 May 2004, pedagoguery wrote: > I've put up a simpler Lojban flag in the files area ("graphics" > directory). Comments? I removed the lines from the original flag > and turned the arrowheads into equilateral triangles. Your drawing does look nice, but I'm not yet sure if it looks nicer than the "canonical" drawings of it. In any case I don't like the loss of the coordinate system, because it has a symbolism that is at least somewhat important. People have previously complained that it looks to thin, "weak", "not striking", etc. I think those complaints could be alleviated somewhat by making heavier lines, and by emphasizing the arrowheads, as you did. I've also noticed that the Lojban logo tends to look better with the middle space of the Venn diagram (ie. A & B) very wide, so that the vertical axis of the coordinate system obscures as little as possible of it. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ The names of a species, empire, language, homeworld, homestar and so on will all be self-evidently related; Ogrons come from Ogros, Arisians come from Arisia, Arcturans come from Arcturus, and Humans no doubt come from Humus. --Justin B. Rye in A Primer In SF Xenolinguistics