[lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

   I apologize for taking so long after I had said how much I wanted
to illustrate the cover of the Lojban dictionary. I have been putting
together an illustration in a 3-D program. It depicts a perspective
view of a surface on which the earth has been printed in an
icosahedron projection. On every triangular section there is a socket,
and cords are plugged into the sockets on the English speaking areas
of the world.
   However, I have found something else that might work even better. I
direct you to: http://complexification.net/gallery/
   These are artworks generated by computer. Node Garden and Box
Fitting look particularly evocative of Lojban. The artist sells prints
of extremely nice outputs of his programs, but since his Java-based
web algorithms generate a new artwork on the fly, maybe he will be
willing to let us use one of these randomly-generated outputs for our
book.
-Matt


On 9/25/05, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone want to run with this ball?  :-)  I can try putting something
> together
>
> > > if no one else wants to.  It won't be fancy, but it IS just a cover for
> a
> > > very niche product, so it probably doesn't have to be all THAT good -
> > > functional will probably work just fine.  The important part is the
> contents,
> > > after all.
> >
> > Why don't I try to put something together, and we can see if
> > you and others like it. Others can do the same if they wish.
>
> Back up! This conversation began after I last checked my e-mail, and in that
> short time has gone very very far. As I have said in the past, I do very
> professional graphic design and have been waiting for opportunities to use
> them for Lojban materials. A cover would be easy, and I would make it look
> extremely attractive. If you'd like the whole dictionary to be re-designed,
> it would take a very long time to reformat all the text, so that depends on
> how long we are willing to wait, and whether we are willing to settle for
> the existing PDF when I am willing to provide a much more attractive
> alternative. Rather than use lex or tex or other things to make the
> typographical changes Robin refers to, I can set up styles in Abobe InDesign
> to do them. Please let me know of any preferences you might have.
>  -epkat
>
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