R devel - Oct 2010 - My retraced version of R logo in SVG

Salvete,

when over the the weekend I found myself incapable of looking at any
more numbers and code, seeing the R logo, I wondered how one would go
about replicating the old-fashioned faux 3D effects it uses.

I thought it would make for a good distraction and exercise to try and
mimic it in SVG as close as possible, tracing the simple shapes by hand
and using layered gradients.

This is the result:

    http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo.svg

for comparison, this is the PNG logo at the same size

    http://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/Logo/Rlogo-2.png

The SVG is stripped down to 80K and the PNG is 200K.

I also have a version with preserved Inkscape metadata at 140K and a 2K
versoin with only the two flat shapes:

    http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo-editable.svg
    http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-simple.svg

I thought someone might find a use for these. If yes, just go ahead.
It?s easy to edit these files. Change the color, make them prettier, or
more physically plausible in terms of shading. I  just put them under
cc-by-sa.

--Tobias

Dear Tobias,

thanks a lot, this looks very nice. I just exported it to PDF and can zoom
in and out with great results. I think we should replace the current logo
with bitmaps (where necessary) of your version and would the be able to
use vector versions wherever possible.

Great work & really appreciated!

Best,
Fritz

> Salvete,
>
> when over the the weekend I found myself incapable of looking at any
> more numbers and code, seeing the R logo, I wondered how one would go
> about replicating the old-fashioned faux 3D effects it uses.
>
> I thought it would make for a good distraction and exercise to try and
> mimic it in SVG as close as possible, tracing the simple shapes by hand
> and using layered gradients.
>
> This is the result:
>
>     http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo.svg
>
> for comparison, this is the PNG logo at the same size
>
>     http://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/Logo/Rlogo-2.png
>
> The SVG is stripped down to 80K and the PNG is 200K.
>
> I also have a version with preserved Inkscape metadata at 140K and a 2K
> versoin with only the two flat shapes:
>
>     http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-novo-editable.svg
>     http://www.alice-dsl.net/~towolf/rlogo/Rlogo-simple.svg
>
> I thought someone might find a use for these. If yes, just go ahead.
> It???s easy to edit these files. Change the color, make them prettier, or
> more physically plausible in terms of shading. I  just put them under
> cc-by-sa.
>
> --Tobias
>
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