On 2007/07/14 11:06, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> On 2007/07/12 18:21, Thomas Bieg wrote:
>> And here's a version that has the letters of "pkg" and "src" on
>> connected surfaces (and thus readable from the right perspectives):
>> http://www.3tb.de/netbsd/pkgsrc-model-v2-readable.png
> 
> Warning: following is from a graphics-challenged user..
> 
> This is cool.  What if you lay out the surfaces like so:
> 
>      p
> 
>      k  g  s
> 
>            r  c
> 
> This way you maintain the construction set and get readability in both 2-D and
> 3-D representations (the different colors for 'pkg' and 'src' surfaces make
> this look better than it does in ASCII... 8-) ).  And if the whole thing is
> rotated counter-clockwise by PI/4, but the letters remain vertical, something
> like:

Make that PI/8.  Apparently I'm also mathematically challenged today, as well...

> 
>                s       c
> 
>      p     g       r
> 
>         k
> 
> 
> you actually improve readability for 3-D w/o hurting for 2-D, IMO.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
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