[Clipart] what is clipart?

[Adam Pearson]

Nicu, Yeah, OK, I'm cool with that ... just establishing ground rules!
 Thanks for the comment.

On 17/09/2007, Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> Adam Pearson wrote:
> > I could well be making an idiot of myself here but that never stopped
> > me before ...
> >
> > Just what is 'clipart" supposed to be?  I have tried to start
> > reviewing stuff, to lend a hand,  and there is the most amazing
> > variety of stuff, a whole pile of stuff that I could not imagine
> > anyone wanting as clipart (and yet it gets downloaded).  Also a pile
> > of traced images, how do they fit into the picture, so to speak?
> >
> > Am I being too pedantic?
>
> I think I see your point, we very often tend to focus on images which
> look cool instead of images which are good as clipart, as the purpose of
> clipart is not to look good by itself, but to be an useful building
> block for larger works.
>
> But in the end, I see no harm in (ab)using OCAL like a completely free
> deviantArt clone or such.
>
> --
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