Humor in GH

Hi Folks!

Am I the only one who has noticed the fine sense of humor displayed on GH icons?

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 10, 2009 at 11:38am

What i find really strange is the amount of icons that get redrawn on every release. They really let David do whatever he wants.

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on August 10, 2009 at 11:41am

That's David for you...read RhinoScript 101 and you'll find even more of it in there...from pg. 18

Dim person
person = GetPersonOverThere()
colHair = GetHairColour(person)

If IsGirl(person) And (colHair = Blond Or colHair = Brunette) And (Age(person) >= 18) Then
Dim neighbour
neighbour = GetAdjacentPerson(person)
If Not IsGuy(neighbour) Or Not LooksStrong(neighbour) Then
Rhino.Print "Hey baby, you like Heineken?"
Else
RotateAngleOfVision 5.0
End If
End If

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Permalink Reply by ryles on August 10, 2009 at 1:00pm

I asked him after about the 2nd or third release if offloading the icon work to someone in the community, obviously someone who would do it for free (I was willing to help), if it would help free up time to work on the programming.

I figured a programmer would find making icons laborious and boring, but he replied back that he likes making the icons, it gives him a mental break.

That would lead me to believe that if the icons are getting redrawn a lot he must be working hard on the core and needs a lot of "icon breaks". ;-)

Ryan

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Permalink Reply by Miguel Villegas on August 10, 2009 at 1:21pm

By the lack of humoured replies I guess people don't duplicate data that much...

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 10, 2009 at 8:05pm

My personal favourite is the Random icon. Too bad most people don't get it though.
But drawing a recognizable cat in 12x12 pixels is definitely a personal best for me.

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Permalink Reply by Miguel Villegas on August 10, 2009 at 11:54pm

Schördinger would kill you just for ripping his joke off and discovering that the cat actually WAS in the box...

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on August 11, 2009 at 9:07am

Speaking of cats...the one that was temporarily used for the Flatten Tree icon was pretty darn funny...

BTW sorry I wasn't @ SIGGRAPH...something "came up"

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 11, 2009 at 10:32am

I think having one icon of cat cruelty is enough. As a cat owner i was pretty happy when the flatten icon was changed... athough it was probably a more accurate representation of what the component does than the current icon.