[plt-scheme] DrScheme startup image question

On Jan 7, 2008 12:15 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
> > There is a flat one that is an svg (originally created by tracing a
> > lambda character and making Scheme code, which still exists), but the
> > roundish one is only an image. For more:
> >
> >  http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/logos/
> >
> > Robby
> >
> > On Jan 2, 2008 8:19 AM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Jan 2, 2008 2:00 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> >>> When DrScheme starts up the PLT logo appears in the splash screen.
> >>> It
> >>> is a lambda that is red, white and blue. That same image appears in
> >>> the window titlebar and the taskbar, on Windows.
> >>>
> >>> How is that image created? Was it an svg?
> >>
> >> I believe it was rendered by Scheme code, but I could be wrong.
>
> Not really.  The curve for the lambda was generated by Krishnamurthi,
> Flatt, & Findler (IIRC).  I mapped it onto a 3d shape, and then
> rendered it with ...  hmm, can't even remember the name of that open-
> source renderer.  Ah well. Eli worked on it later, as well, getting it
> to a higher resolution and state of polish.

Not Findler, I'm pretty sure. It was a while ago, but I don't think I
helped with that.

Robby