Monday, May 19, 2008

SVG for Plasmoids/widgets. part 1: Education

Small SVGs suitable for use as background for Plasmoids and widgets:


Blackboard


Example uses: for showing content with white or pastel color text (Kalzium - did you know) or simple drawings.



White board


Example uses: for showing content with black or typical white-board-colors on text or simple drawings.



Projector screen closed


For saving space on desktop when not in use?



Projector screen ready


For showing full color content like pictures movies or similar.




Projector screen and blackboard combined
blackboard active


Could be used to show different content in one widget were user could interact to select between two modes (example: text on the blackboard and illustration on the screen). A toggle between modes could be a mouse click in area A (below).



Projector screen and blackboard combined
screen active


The screen mode for full color possibilities on the content displayed.
Interactive area suggestions:
A - toggle between screen and blackboard content
B - draw new/more content
C - clean up and start over again

Functionality mentioned above is only suggestions from me. Use the drawings as you like. No interactions code exist from me and I can't code. I can help if code needs special content on the drawings, let me know what is needed.

Illustrations on this post is made in Inkscape: The blackboards, white-boards and projector-screens is the SVGs drawn by me. The stick-people-drawings on the first blackboard and on the white-board is early inkscape work by my (by then about 4 or 5 year old) son. The pretending to be desktop-background is an old OS/2 wallpaper heavy modified by me.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Vise-grip wrench and Lithium battery





One of my favorite tools and a typically remote-control battery.

And:


New silver-drawing and the modified gold-ring. The first gold and silver drawings were both rings with only color difference. Silver deserve it's own illustration so I made the silver-chain.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Steel string -guitar and Digger


Musical instruments are fun to draw.


Two more illustrations; steel strings for phosphorus and a digger for manganese. The digger is drawn from a photo I took a couple of years ago of a old digger (Ã…kerman) belonging to my brother. The light in the photo was from the wrong side so I mirrored It.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Iodine and Camcorder



I take the opportunity to start creating as many icons/drawings as possible now when it is winter and I got the time. The plan is to finish them up later when I don't have so much continuous time to spend on them. These (Iodine and Indium) however was finished some time ago. Lots of unfinished drawings laying in my desktop makes it easy to find something to do.



One drawing is bothering me a little;
I was planning drawing a car for Palladium to illustrate a Catalytic converter. If I draw a normal car the catalytic part wont show, a car who is nice to draw and viewed partly from down-up is hard to find and if I draw only the Catalytic converter it may be hard to recognize. These thoughts have made me put this drawing on hold, but I have to start it now so any opinion is welcome. To summon up, I can:
  • draw a normal car and the part won't show
  • draw the part without the car
  • draw a car witch show the exhaust system from behind (the part is hidden in the front)
  • wait an uncertain time until I find a car I can take a photo of from the down-up (not my favorite now, since I have been doing only this until now and it may not happend)
Status rapport from me: mainly start working on new drawings, not so much work being done on finished them, and some times consumed by experimenting.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Crt-TV, Xerox-machine, Oven and Nightlight.



Some more drawings for Kalzium and a "remember to prepare for X-mas"-drawing. Maybe someone could make use of it for resepies or something these days?



OK, long time since the last drawings were send. I had to get the hang of it again after been away from it through the summer.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Coins, Flashlight and Satellite



Some more icons for Kalzium finished:
  • Nickel and copper -coins
  • Flashlight with krypton light bulb
  • Satellite with atomic clock (Rubidium is resonant element)
More icons mostly done but not finished yet:
P (guitar strings), Sr (CRT- TV), I (antiseptics), Sc (Xerox-machine), In (LCD-screen on camcorder), Mn (digger-machine) and Ce (oven).
Next icon to create: Pd (car exhaust).

Monday, May 21, 2007

Microscope and Lead-glass door


A microscope for Germanium to replace LED. The changes are:


As suggested by Blue Lightning: LED for Gallium instead of Germanium who is now represented with a microscope.
The old microchip for Gallium, represent Arsenic instead now.


Made another variation to the radioactive-icon, so there is more to choose from. J is from the first version (K), but with a black dot in the middle (thanks to the commenter's).
A to I is the new ones. They are all the same with different colors, except C who also have added transparency to the far out parts of the rings.
Since many elements is going to be represented by the radioactive-icon, I may try out more ideas later.

Friday, May 4, 2007

Tambourine, Pipe, LED and Chip




More drawings for Kalzium. It was difficult to find nice objects to draw for beryllium, chlorine, germanium and gallium. These have often made me uncertain, but I hope they turn out OK.

Update: Copper-colored tambourine. Thank to all commenter's.