{"id":1819,"date":"2009-08-18T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2009-08-18T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T01:13:21","slug":"curious-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/curious-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set aside 2 hours every Monday for &#8220;skills development&#8221; &#8211; basically trying to improve weak points in areas required for games development.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I used some of that time to respond to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Design\/comments\/9b7gt\/ask_designit_anyone_want_to_help_out_with_an_open\/\">this post on reddit<\/a> from the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.github.com\/bwallace\/curious_snake\">Curious Snake<\/a> (an open-source &#8220;active learning&#8221; python framework) asking for a logo.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/byron\">byron<\/a> liked this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1820\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/curious-snake\/curious_snake_logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png?fit=479%2C223&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"479,223\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"curious_snake_logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png?fit=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png?fit=479%2C223&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png?resize=479%2C223\" alt=\"curious_snake_logo\" title=\"curious_snake_logo\" width=\"479\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png?w=479&amp;ssl=1 479w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 85vw, 479px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_logo.svg\">SVG file<\/a> (created in <a href=\"http:\/\/inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: Here is an image of the work-in-progress sketches that led to the logo above (all on the tablet &#8211; I try not to use paper):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/curious-snake\/curious_snake_wip\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png?fit=480%2C518&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,518\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"curious_snake_wip\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png?fit=277%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png?fit=480%2C518&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png?resize=480%2C518\" alt=\"curious_snake_wip\" title=\"curious_snake_wip\" width=\"480\" height=\"518\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/curious_snake_wip.png?w=277&amp;ssl=1 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was around 2 minutes of looking at references, 3 minutes of sketching, 2 minutes for the final in black &#038; white, and then 10 minutes in cleanup.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set aside 2 hours every Monday for &#8220;skills development&#8221; &#8211; basically trying to improve weak points in areas required for games development. Yesterday, I used some of that time to respond to this post on reddit from the author of Curious Snake (an open-source &#8220;active learning&#8221; python framework) asking for a logo. In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/curious-snake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curious Snake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}