Artwork/F8Themes/Infinity/Round3Scratch

= Fedora Infinity Round 3 Scratch Area =

Infinite Structure to Infinite Lines
I've been playing around a lot with the final infinite structure mockup from round 2:





I got a lot of positive feedback about the color scheme on IRC in #fedora-devel and from showing it to some folks in person, so I thought I'd stick with that color scheme (a number of folks asked if we could PLEASE not have an ALL BLUE background again ;-) ) and play around with the composition. So first, I played with the perspective. The original from round 2 fades into the top edge of the screen. Not as much opportunity for shininess or BLING there, so I thought I'd try a perspective that lent itself more to shiny reflections, adding a floor to the image composition as well:





I showed the two one after the other to RayStrode and WarrenTogami and somehow the shininess on the bottom didn't seem to impress much. :) Basically they were equally 'meh' about these two. So I played with various forms of bling, settling on adding what I think is a more sophisticated version of the Fedora Borealis mockups from the F7 process:





I showed this to RayStrode, and he thought I was onto something. But he still felt 'meh' about the bridge structure. So I tried an alternative - some graceful lines (I was inspired by [A photo of a sea anemone ) gathering from multiple points and together as a strong thread, ascending to the top of the screen, fading out into the brightness and sparkles:





I rather like this image, because it reminds me of the old story about the Iroquois Nation I learned in school - the Iroquois Native Americans were a federation of many different tribes of the Northeastern United States. They came together as a united nation, and one of the stories told about the formation of this nation talk about how each tribe was seperately a single arrow, easy to break. But together, they were a bunch of arrows, which is much harder to break. Fedora is made up of a lot of folks from all around the world, and alone each person might not be able to accomplish Fedora, but all together we can built a great OS.

Anyhow I think I'm finally happy with this design. What do you think???

= Variations =

Plain
Could be used for login screen, etc.





Shifted


[SVG is the same as the one below, just shifted. promise!]

Gimp-Processed
Processed using layer blending in the Gimp. These three all use the Inkscape SVG source here:













Lighter Touch












= Components =