[copied to wikien-l, as they may find it interesting]
On 15/03/2008, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
This may be a useful site for people who create coats of arms. I don't know, maybe it is too simplistic?
http://web.meson.org/blazonserver/
You describe a COA using some restricted terminology (on that page) and then it generates an SVG of it.
Marvellous! I've been wondering why someone doesn't develop one of these for ages :-)
We have a lot of ambiguity over the rights of coats of arms - a lot of the time, we claim a modern artistic depiction is public domain because the underlying "description" is public domain, and that's a fairly iffy claim. Something like this helps us cut out a lot of the potential legal iffiness...