View Augmentation Logos
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:39 pm
Some readers may have read my comments in the following blog post.
http://blogs.adobe.com/shaykhalflash/20 ... ation.html
I am very impressed with the Street View facility of Google maps.
http://maps.google.com
I have been thinking that maybe there could be a button so that View Augmentation Logos are displayed.
The information of whereabouts upon an image to display the View Augmentation Logos could be stored in the database, and if the end user is using the system in View Augmentation Logos mode, then any logo or logos appropriate to that Street View image could be superimposed when the image is sent to the end user.
I have designed three such View Augmentation Logos in the hope that they might be of interest for experimentation and that they may act as a catalyst to other View Augmentation Logos being designed.
I have encoded them in a font.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/VALOG001.TTF
The idea is that each logo is built around 7 chunks of 256 font units high by 21 chunks of 256 font units wide with a blank 256 font unit chunk above and to the right. The phrase "built around" is used as this is not a pixel font as such as there can be curves, yet the logos need to be clear.
The total width of glyphs is 22 times 256 font units which is 5632 font units.
The space and the nonmarkingreturn and the .notdef glyph are 5632 font units wide as well.
Thus far I have encoded three logos, at U+E441, U+E442 and U+E443.
U+E441 VIEW AUGMENTATION LOGO ART GALLERY
U+E442 VIEW AUGMENTATION LOGO ART GALLERY PUBLIC
U+E443 VIEW AUGMENTATION LOGO ART GALLERY PRIVATE
These are also coded as A, U and R respectively in this development font.
Those non-Unicode mappings are from the A at the start of ART GALLERY, the U in PUBLIC and the R in PRIVATE.
The non-Unicode mappings are included to facilitate experiments with producing experimental graphics using the Microsoft Paint program.
The logos are specifically designed so that they are symmetrical when viewed from either left-to-right or right-to-left.
William Overington
2 November 2007
http://blogs.adobe.com/shaykhalflash/20 ... ation.html
I am very impressed with the Street View facility of Google maps.
http://maps.google.com
I have been thinking that maybe there could be a button so that View Augmentation Logos are displayed.
The information of whereabouts upon an image to display the View Augmentation Logos could be stored in the database, and if the end user is using the system in View Augmentation Logos mode, then any logo or logos appropriate to that Street View image could be superimposed when the image is sent to the end user.
I have designed three such View Augmentation Logos in the hope that they might be of interest for experimentation and that they may act as a catalyst to other View Augmentation Logos being designed.
I have encoded them in a font.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/VALOG001.TTF
The idea is that each logo is built around 7 chunks of 256 font units high by 21 chunks of 256 font units wide with a blank 256 font unit chunk above and to the right. The phrase "built around" is used as this is not a pixel font as such as there can be curves, yet the logos need to be clear.
The total width of glyphs is 22 times 256 font units which is 5632 font units.
The space and the nonmarkingreturn and the .notdef glyph are 5632 font units wide as well.
Thus far I have encoded three logos, at U+E441, U+E442 and U+E443.
U+E441 VIEW AUGMENTATION LOGO ART GALLERY
U+E442 VIEW AUGMENTATION LOGO ART GALLERY PUBLIC
U+E443 VIEW AUGMENTATION LOGO ART GALLERY PRIVATE
These are also coded as A, U and R respectively in this development font.
Those non-Unicode mappings are from the A at the start of ART GALLERY, the U in PUBLIC and the R in PRIVATE.
The non-Unicode mappings are included to facilitate experiments with producing experimental graphics using the Microsoft Paint program.
The logos are specifically designed so that they are symmetrical when viewed from either left-to-right or right-to-left.
William Overington
2 November 2007