is there an official Fricas icon?

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Nasser M. Abbasi

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Aug 19, 2022, 1:47:39 AM8/19/22
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For my next report of independent integration tests, I would like to put an icon for all the CAS systems used in the report.

I searched but do not see an official icon/image for Fricas.  Does one exist I can download the image?

I see at top left corner of sourceforge page below an icon


But not sure if it is a place holder or not.

Other CAS systems seem to have an official icon/image and I am trying to collect all these icons to put them at front page of the final report.

--Nasser


Ralf Hemmecke

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Aug 19, 2022, 2:01:05 AM8/19/22
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There is no official one. Actually, I would like to have a proper
nice-looking one.

For the fricas github account, I have created something (see the branch
fricas-githbub-icon in my private repository.

https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas/blob/fricas-github-icon/fricas.svg
https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas/blob/fricas-github-icon/fricas.png

I don't think it should count as the official logo.

Maybe we should call for a logo competition to create a nice logo for
FriCAS. ;-)

Ralf



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Nasser M. Abbasi

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Aug 19, 2022, 2:09:15 AM8/19/22
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Thanks. That is nice icon. With your permission, can I use that icon on the front cover?

--Nasser

Nasser M. Abbasi

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Aug 19, 2022, 2:54:02 AM8/19/22
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fyi, the following is a preliminary image of the cover with the 8 CAS icons showing
including the Fricas icon. 

Andrey G. Grozin

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Aug 19, 2022, 4:12:38 AM8/19/22
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, 'Nasser M. Abbasi' via FriCAS - computer algebra system wrote:
> fyi, the following is a preliminary image of the cover with the 8 CAS icons showingincluding the Fricas icon. 
> image
grozin@bilbo ~ $ wget https://12000.org/tmp/08192022/cover.png
--2022-08-19 15:11:40-- https://12000.org/tmp/08192022/cover.png
Resolving 12000.org... 192.249.121.28
Connecting to 12000.org|192.249.121.28|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2022-08-19 15:11:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Nasser M. Abbasi

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Aug 19, 2022, 4:21:50 AM8/19/22
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I had lots of bots in the past doing lots of wget and my ISP complained to me on bandwidth so I disabled wget.

I enabled it now. so it should work.

>wget https://12000.org/tmp/08192022/cover.png
--2022-08-19 03:20:19--  https://12000.org/tmp/08192022/cover.png
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving 12000.org (12000.org)... 192.249.121.28
Connecting to 12000.org (12000.org)|192.249.121.28|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 94812 (93K) [image/png]
Saving to: ‘cover.png’

cover.png                      100%[=================================================>]  92.59K   576KB/s    in 0.2s    

2022-08-19 03:20:20 (576 KB/s) - ‘cover.png’ saved [94812/94812]

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Grégory Vanuxem

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Aug 20, 2022, 8:56:28 AM8/20/22
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Hi here,

For a Windows installer, and a just click icon, I quickly created a
Windows icon in the past (see attachment).

But what I really think is that a real logo, a figure, a drawing etc.
should be used with the name of FriCAS (in the logo eventually or
below).

Greg
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Ralf Hemmecke

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Aug 20, 2022, 10:13:26 AM8/20/22
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> But what I really think is that a real logo, a figure, a drawing etc.
> should be used with the name of FriCAS (in the logo eventually or
> below).

Right.

I think we should call for a little competition. ;-)
Anyone interested? Let's collect some ideas.
See attachment.

Ralf
fricas-logo.png
fricas-logo-1.png

Bill Page

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Aug 20, 2022, 3:01:22 PM8/20/22
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From FriCAS wiki

http://fricas-wiki.math.uni.wroc.pl/FrontPage

there is a variant of the original Axiom icon.
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Kurt Pagani

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Aug 21, 2022, 2:23:08 PM8/21/22
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Although I care little about logos, it might be preferable to have one that can
be constructed in a simple way, e.g. as ASCII art or by a LaTeX macro.
There are some tools (figlet for ascii-art) or tizk for LaTeX which may be of
help (see links below).
A quick search and some adjustments resulted in the hints below (which doesn't
mean, I like it ;). Actually I like the one Bill referred to in the last post.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIGlet


logo:=[_
" ____________________________________________________",_
" ________ __ ________________ ________ ",_
" / ____/______(__) ______/ __ | / ____/ ",_
" / __// ____/ / /____/ ____ |__\ \ ",_
"/__/ /__/ /__/\______/__/ |__/______/ ",_
"=~=~=~=~==~=~=~=~==~=~=~=~= "]

(2)

[" __________________________", " ____ _ ________ ____ ",
" / __/___(_) ___/ _ | / __/ ", " / _// __/ / /__/ __ |_\ \ ",
"/_/ /_/ /_/\___/_/ |_/___/ ", "=~=~=~=~==~=~=~=~==~=~=~=~= "]
Type: List(String)
map(output,logo);
__________________________
____ _ ________ ____
/ __/___(_) ___/ _ | / __/
/ _// __/ / /__/ __ |_\ \
/_/ /_/ /_/\___/_/ |_/___/
=~=~=~=~==~=~=~=~==~=~=~=~=

Type: List(Void)




or in LaTeX:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/381262/logo-design-with-tikz
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/297879/drawing-logo-with-tikz
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/469279/how-can-i-create-this-logo-in-latex

\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{fit}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node [yscale=2.8,xscale=1.2,rotate=-5] (int)
{$\int_\mathtt{\partial}^{\mathtt{\aleph_0}}$};
\node (H1) at ([yshift=-1mm,xshift=2mm]int.east) {\textbf{\textsf{CAS}}};
\node (H2) at ([yshift=1mm,xshift=-1mm]int.west) {\textbf{\textsf{Fri}}};
\node[circle,draw,thick,fit=(int) (H1) (H2),inner sep=-4pt]{};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
fricas_logo.pdf
logo.input
logo.txt

Ralf Hemmecke

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Aug 21, 2022, 2:40:40 PM8/21/22
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On 21.08.22 20:23, Kurt Pagani wrote:
> ... it might be preferable to have one that can be constructed in a
> simple way, e.g. as ASCII art or by a LaTeX macro.

Somewhat true, but I think that nowadays an SVG or a scalable postscript
file should be fine.

> Actually I like the one Bill referred to in the last post.

Hmm... I'm of a different opinion. It looks a bit like the logo on the
AXIOM book of Jenks and Sutor, but honestly the axiom logo looks more
stylish with the double-dot i in the middle of the word. I find FriCAS
logo on http://fricas-wiki.math.uni.wroc.pl/ a bit boring.

An idea would be to take a picture connected to frykas of fricassee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricassee
However, although logos are only there to recognise a brand, I'm not so
sure that a picture of food makes sense for the promotion of a CAS.

I think I would like a logo that somehow shows types since that is one
of the big features of FriCAS.

Ralf
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