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Post subject: apt2svg ourea competition entry
 Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 03:42 PM
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Sometimes you just have to have fun, and seeing as though I've been learning a bit of svg for a xhtml+svg+js project I decided to try and write a little program to create an entry for the sidux wallpaper competition.
The above was created by painting a fairly transparent debian swirl for each package in a supplied set of deb package lists, positioned by name and coloured by version number and finally overlaying the sidux logo.
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the package lists used (in this case the current i386 sidux packages)
svg2apt2 perl program which generates the svg from a set of package lists
a trivial sidux.sh script which creates the svg and uses convert to render a jpg
I also included the svg and jpg in the release folder, if you open the svg in inkscape you can see the "page" is only perhaps 20% of the full image.
The bad news is I'm pretty sure I'll manage to create an entry2 (or more) before the deadline  |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 02:23 PM
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Taking on board a few bits of input from various people the above second entry was born last night. |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 03:00 PM
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| I like it. Do you mind if I make some variations of it myself? |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 03:42 PM
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the wallpaper comp is closed, but, as it is free as bfree, go ahead and share it 
greetz
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 08:58 PM
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MeanDean wrote:
I like it. Do you mind if I make some variations of it myself?
gpl v2 or later means you can feel free, as long as you distribute the preferred source's with any binaries  .
Note it's easy to just change the colour scheme's by playing with a couple of lines in the perl. I will warn you though that inkscape and iceweasel at least don't like trying to open the svg you can create by feeding a full set of debian package lists to the program! Entry2 was created by only using sidux amd64 packages to make it a little less cluttered.
I will also apologise that the quality of the code is appalling ... but I don't really care! |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 09:15 PM
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Just playing with the jpegs. I am not a svg sort of guy, unless it is importing the svg into the gimp. Didn't want to step on any toes regardless of the license. It would make a awesome debian wallpaper...maybe I will have to dig into the svg afterall.
a few color variations are available HERE
here is a thumbnail of one of them
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 09:47 PM
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The source is more perl then svg really and it is probably easier to work with the perl then the svg for most things! Just be warned to ignore the sidux.inkscape.svg file in the source .tar.gz ... it's an old temporary file and shouldn't be in there.
Only looking at the jpg also means you only actually see the section of the image I happened to crop around, there's a lot more (generally less dense) space there. You could drop the background layer from the svg, render to a png (with it's transparency information the jpeg doesn't store) and use that with the kde desktop compositing options so the image is a texture for whatever background you want. Or just import that png into the editor/compositor of your choice to render a new jpeg.
Obviously for a debian wallpaper it would need to drop the sidux logo which means touching the perl or svg, it would also make sense though to generate a new image using a set of debian packages as the inputs (rather then sidux packages) which will lead to a different image! |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 10:09 PM
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you lost me right after the word The
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Posted: Aug 12, 2008 - 11:28 AM
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Posted: Aug 12, 2008 - 01:01 PM
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michaa wrote:
great! But it's a *.jpg. Is it possible to d/l it as *.svg ?
probably not..... Can I ask why everyone is so hung up on svg?
I will see what I can do but the last few times I have tried I ended up with either a crappy conversion or even worse. 
edit - I can embed it into a svg file, not sure that would provide any benefit though. |
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Posted: Aug 13, 2008 - 12:52 AM
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MeanDean wrote:
michaa wrote:
great! But it's a *.jpg. Is it possible to d/l it as *.svg ?
probably not..... Can I ask why everyone is so hung up on svg?
it's infinitely scalable
most dms use it or will use it for their icons/decorations - especially kde4 (all that prettiness is svg)
it's a text based format == excellent for use with version control systems, specifically subversion which sidux devs use
as such, it provides true "sources"
it's easily scripted into source packaging
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I will see what I can do but the last few times I have tried I ended up with either a crappy conversion or even worse.
edit - I can embed it into a svg file, not sure that would provide any benefit though.
it would not provide any benefit |
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