I spy with my little eye

During last years, I have prepared several image proposals for logos, banners, stickers, images for T-shirts and similar purposes. The aim of all those designs was to help to choose an image on events and projects where I collaborated. I designed some of this proposals in the SVG open format using a free program called Inkscape. This kind of images have the special property that they don’t loose quality when you scale them. That’s why I thought it was worth to put this files accessible to everyone.

In this first image, you can see how to simulate a hand-made line thought Bézier curves:

Original SVG file

In the next image, you can see how it is possible to make a text to follow the path of a line you have previously drawn:

Original SVG file

The next image contains symbols that you can use to create other images. I am talking about copyleft symbol, glider symbol and the recycling symbol:

Original SVG file

I created the next image for the RFID news section of Barrapunto.com. Overlapping several rectangles with rounded borders I achieved this logo in just a moment:

Original SVG file

Finally, I also have found the next image in my hard disc. This time, I wrote the at symbol and then I turned it a vectorial object. This way I could modify and give it the exact appearance I was looking for. By the other side, the stars I used to represent the fire of the fuse can be created using objects with so many edges as we want. On this kind of objects you can modify parameters like rotation angle, outer radius, inner radius and other ones. It is difficult to create this kind of shapes unless you are using vectorial tools, so you have to take this into account when you design images. Here is the shabby image I obtained with so powerful tools

Original SVG file

Warning: some day I have to compare some of the elements of this images with the Wikipedia Commons project and check if I can contribute somehow. Of course, any suggestion is absolutely welcome.

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Tags: free software, image design, open format, SVG

It is just celebrated this year’s Hackmeeting in Gernika and my contribution has been a lecture in spanish about the magic of numbers. Conbining humour and odd facts related to the number theory, I tried to make a pleasant lecture although the dry subject it can be math. As some of the public told me later, I achieved the objective so I am glad with the result.

To tell the truth, I didn’t have enought time to prepare all the contents that I would like to talk about, but if I ever repeat this lecture I will have time to improve the contents.

Here is the presentation I prepared:

20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.pdf (5 MB)

20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.odp (7,5 MB)

I am not sure if the lecture was saved by video, but the audio was. If that material becomes accessible later, I will advise in this article.

Update (2008/02/11): At last, I got the audio of the Hackmeeting’s speech, so now I will publish it. By the way, you can download or hear on-line other nodes of Hackelarre.

20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.ogg (44 MB)

20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.mp3 (70 MB)

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Tags: hackmeeting, lecture, mathematics

Welcome to this new weblog. If you want to know more about who writes this, please read “About” page.

As you can see, this weblog has three languages (… well, in fact they are three weblogs). Later I want to add a wiki and a photolog or some similar section for my photographs. For now I think it’s enough with this!

The contents of this weblog are not divided by categories, as I don’t have a very clear idea about which subjects I am going to talk. Despite of this, I am going to classify the articles by tags as I find them much more practicals than categories.

Finally, I have to say that despite the blog, I don’t see myself as a conventional blogger. I say this because first of all, one of the reasons that has given me a boost to create this website is just to have a place where publish the contents which doesn’t fit at other projects where I take part. Another reason is that I think that in this moment of my life, I am leaving a more introspective phase and I am starting a more productive one (at least from the net’s point of view). Besides, I will produce the articles without any regular recurrence, staying mute perhaps for long periods of time. Most of the bloggers will think this is bad for the blog, but, despite of all, I have come here to do this.

In any case, that fond of replicating memes and that fever for new web tools as many bloggers profess, are absolutely not interesting for me. My aim is to create contents. About very different subjects, in different formats and beside when I want to. So, my appreciated friend who is reading this lines, give yourself advised about what you can find inside this website.

I am conscious that a weblog of this nature will not show appealing for most people. But this is the way I have found to satisfy my expressive needs. If this is also useful for anyone else, so much the better.

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Tags: blogs, meta