[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...