On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:04:43AM +0000, Noel Torres wrote: > > Spiral galaxies always have at least TWO arms.
Which is why I thought a two-armed spiral, based on a real galaxy, would be appropriate. Clearly different from Debian's spiral, anyway. The Milky Way indeed seems to have two main arms, with two vestigial arms between them. But there is a dearth of photos of the Milky Way that clearly shows the spiral arms, and this is likely to continue for at least myriads of years. There is a public-domain drawing of the Milky Way, but it presents the Milky Way as a barred galaxy, and the par seems to have been kind of air-brushed onto the image rather than integral to the staarfield. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_the_Milky_Way_(updated_-_annotated).jpg And a schematic diagram of the arms, which appears to be under the Gnu Free Documentation license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_Arms.svg I'd like to see the first of these worked up into a simple but interesting logo image. Something that's effective in only two colors (such as black and white, or any other foreground-background pair) and still has some - but not all - of the complexity of reality. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
