Need ideas for an icon

by David Rutten

Mar 14, 2013

After a request by Arend I added an unflatten component for reversing a flattening operation. If you still have the original tree and the number of items hasn't changed it can be put back together:

However I just cannot come up with a good idea for an icon for Unflatten. The best I could come up with was an acorn, which is a tenuous link at best.

Any ideas welcome, but please remember that the icon must de drawable and recognizable in a 20x20 (24x24 in an emergency) pixel image.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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    Daniel Gebreiter

    Lovely discussion! I haven't got any tools to draw nice icons, but here's another idea in case there's no clear winner yet (tough I quite like the stump and little twig from earlier):

    flatten turns the tree into a plank- um, well, it's flat! ;-)

    "unflatten" then reconstructs a tree-shape from a set of planks!

     

    flatten:

    unflatten:

    Mar 19, 2013

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      Alex

      maybe this solution will suit :)

      Mar 20, 2013

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        Diego

        I know this is an old, closed discussion, and no one will ever read it... but! we are still on time.

        Can we change the current unflatten tree by a zombie-tree please (it was dead and now is back)? or a trunk disguised as a tree (hard too imagine but worth it)?

        Only for the sake of humor!

        PD. SMASH command icon best icon ever.

        Mar 3, 2016