Fastfission wrote:
I went to the site and it did look a lot like our
logo. But I found a
little section on their page about themselves which talks about their
logo:
http://www.wikimania.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Wikimania:Über_Wikimania
See the "Unser LOGO" section. My German isn't that great anymore but
they basically say they got theirs from a book which came out in 2001
and that it is very sad that we picked a similar logo (if I'm not
reading it wrong, they are subtlely claiming that we stole in from
them).
[snip]
It seems like an independent visual genealogy, unless
I'm missing
something.
You are. :)
Very odd. Anyway, I don't think we have a strong
claim
about them copying us.
Their logo is quite obviously the Wikipedia logo with a vertical shear and
stretch applied, and most *but not all* of the letters airbrushed out and replaced.
1. Load
http://en.wikipedia.org/images/wiki-en.png in an image editor such as
The Gimp
2. Scale vertically to about 200px
3. Shear vertically about 50px
4. Rotate about 15 degrees clockwise
I've taken the liberty of making a quick side-by-side comparison:
http://new.leuksman.com/misc/logo-comparison.png
Notice:
1. The shape and edge shading of the puzzle pieces match exactly.
2. One symbol on the upper-left matches exactly between the two, which doesn't
match the style of their other symbols at all.
3. Their letters don't follow perspective and stray over the piece edges; they
have clearly been pasted on in an image editor rather than existing on the
texture when the sphere was rendered.
4. There are tell-tale smudges of mismatched shading all over the surface where
they've clearly airbrushed out the existing symbols before pasting their new
ones on.
("Our" version is blurry here as it's from the low-resolution site copy. A
high-resolution source image, easily obtainable, would allow you to make a
similarly sharp distorted copy.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
