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spiralofhope's logo, used for this website.

It is a combination of the golden triangle and the Fibonacci spiral.

It is based in part on PersOnLine's Golden triangle and Fibonacci spiral (public domain).

I didn't pick it for any reason other than it was interesting.

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The area ∞

The area is the Fibonacci tiling.

In my case, it is ( 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 ):

TODO - Graph paper with the Fibonacci squares.

• The ratio of the sides is 34:21

The triangle ∞

θ is Theta

The triangle is an isosceles triangle in which

a) The two longer sides have equal lengths.

b) The angles are in 2:2:1 proportions.

c) The length of the short side is the golden ratio:

	\( \phi = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2} \cdot \)	φ = (1 + √5) ÷ 2
φ is Phi

.. making this triangle a golden triangle.

The spiral ∞

source, public domain

This was created by drawing arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling, described by The area, above.

.. making this spiral a Fibonacci spiral.

The editing ∞

The heavy lifting was done with great thanks to geminiguy from the Unity Linux team. I conceived of it and got some graphics, he assembled it and then made an SVG version of it.

I learned about Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) when I poked around my WordPress profile. However, they required a square and not rectangular image, and didn't reduce the canvas size and pad it with a transparency. I was forced to edit the image to do these things myself.

I ended up learning a little about Inkscape, the de-facto standard for SVG editing. It took me a while to figure things out, and I almost went back to GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) . It being GNU should be enough to describe how difficult it is to use.

At any rate, I figured out how to change the shape of the canvas and export it the way I like. I even took the time to rotate it a bit, to change where the eye focuses.

I've also been forced to have a white background instead of a transparent background, because it won't look proper on many websites.

I figured out how to have an alternate logo for the dark scheme of this website, and so I did some fiddling around to make a dark logo. It was a lot more annoying than I thought it would be!

I had been using the logo for some time, and have been forced to make various sizes of it to meet the requirements of different websites.

I later created a Favicon using Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator.

Unrelated ∞

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Last updated 2023-06-11 at 01:20:31