[Clipart] And the Winner is... + Need Independent Verification

[Bryce Harrington]

Congrats Andreas, and thanks Jonadab and Jon for handling the voting.
I'm looking forward to seeing our new logo in use.  :-)

Bryce

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> writes:
> > The winner by my vote is:
> >
> > Andreas Nilssons
> > http://openclipart.org/clipart//OCALLogos/open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
> > which is the same as ocallogo.svg
> >
> > The one complaint and something which needs to be reworked, which I can
> > take on is the text next to the graphic.
> 
> For the small icon-sized versions, we don't need the text.  Here is a
> zipfile containing PNGs at 16, 32, 48, and 64 pixels, and an ICO that
> contains 16, 32, and 48 pixel versions:
> http://openclipart.org/incoming/open_clip_art_library_logo_contest_winner_01.zip
> 
> The 16-pixel versions do not have the shadow.  There are also SVG
> intermediate forms, which are nicely square and so could be used if
> SVG icons are wanted.  (Do any current GUIs employ SVG icons
> directly?)
> 
> The original version with the text (reworked as desired) can be used
> to generate larger images for use on the website, but I'll let someone
> else handle that end of things, since reworking the text (beyond
> merely removing it) is more than I want to undertake really.
> 
> > Please, one other person check my work
> 
> Based on the thirteen voters in your votes.txt, here is what I get:
> 
> Round 1, in order (except for exact URI duplicates):
>  2 open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
>  1 ocallogo.svg
>  2 open_clipart_library_proposal_02_gallery_01.png
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_06.svg
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_09.svg 
>  1 open_clipart_library_proposal_01_gallery_01.svg
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_07.svg
>  1 ocal_logo_01_01.svg (1 assumed)
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_08.svg
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_10.svg
>  1 ocal_logo_0.5_01.svg
>  
> Combining ones that are obviously very similar...
> ocallogo.svg is extremely similar to open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
> open_clip_art_logo_07.svg is very similar to open_clip_art_logo_06.svg
>   and also open_clip_art_logo_10.svg
> open_clip_art_logo_09.svg is similar to open_clip_art_logo_08.png
> 
> Round 1 grouped by similarity:
> 
> 3 for Nilsson's yellow orange and red snapshots:
>   2 open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
>   1 ocallogo.svg
> 
> 2 for Fitzsimon's open window:
>   2 open_clipart_library_proposal_02_gallery_01.png
> 
> 3 for Phillips' scissors:
>   1 open_clip_art_logo_06.svg
>   1 open_clip_art_logo_07.svg
>   1 open_clip_art_logo_10.svg
> 
> 2 for Stuber's open box:
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_09.svg 
>  1 open_clip_art_logo_08.svg
> 
> 1 each for three others:
>  1 open_clipart_library_proposal_01_gallery_01.svg
>  1 ocal_logo_01_01.svg (1 assumed)
>  1 ocal_logo_0.5_01.svg
>  
> So for round two, we're down to the four that got multiple votes:
> Nilsson's snapshots, Fitzsimon's window, Phillips' scissors, or
> Stuber's box.  Based on that...
> 
> Vote  1 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
> Vote  2 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
> Vote  3 goes for Fitzsimon's window, first choice.
> Vote  4 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
> Vote  5 goes for Stuber's box, first choice.
> Vote  6 goes for Fitzsimon's window, first choice.
> Vote  7 does not vote for any of those (but, I like several of them...)
> Vote  8 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
> Vote  9 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, second choice.
> Vote 10 goes for Stuber's box, first choice.
> Vote 11 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
> Vote 12 does not vote for any of those.
> Vote 13 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
> 
> So the only one that picks up a vote here is Nilsson, who picks up
> vote 9 on second choice.
> 
> That makes it...
>   4 votes for Nilsson's snapshots
>   2 votes for Fitzsimon's window
>   3 votes for Phillips' scissors
>   2 votes for Stuber's box.
> 
> The two-vote choices don't make the cut, so it's between Nilsson's
> snapshots and Phillips' scissors...
> 
> Vote  1 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
> Vote  2 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
> Vote  3 doesn't vote for either of those.
> Vote  4 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
> Vote  5 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, second choice
> Vote  6 doesn't vote for either of those.
> Vote  7 bowed out in the previous round.
> Vote  8 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
> Vote  9 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, second choice.
> Vote 10 goes for Phillips' scissors, second choice.
> Vote 11 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
> Vote 12 bowed out in the previous round.
> Vote 13 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
> 
> So Nilsson's box picks up vote 5 on second choice, and Phillips'
> scissors pick up vote 10 on the second choice.  As near as I can tell,
> that brings us to the same conclusion you already reached:
> 
>   5 votes for Nilsson's snapshots
>   4 votes for Phillips' scissors
> 
> It should be noted that several of the "didn't vote for those" votes
> were voting for other images that didn't make the cut in the same
> round, so this was definitely a close thing.  One person voting for
> the same images in a different order could have tipped the scales.
> 
> But I'm satisfied with the winning image, despite that I didn't
> personally vote for it.  It seems to come out pretty decent even at
> rather small sizes:
> http://openclipart.org/incoming/open_clip_art_library_logo_contest_winner_01.zip
> 
> It'll look okay in greyscale too.  And as I commented in another
> thread, it reminds me of a handful of Polaroids, so it should have
> pretty good recognition value.  It's a good choice.
>  
>