Hi
looks like we could get rid of the zix2xpm program. Anyone had time to
look at the patch to remove xpm from git? Everyone OK with me committing
it to master?
Arun
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Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 10:18 pm schreef Tim Mann:
> Ah, those look nice, at least in that size. Well, the knights' eyes look
> strange in XChu.png, but fine in Lion1.png. Or are the "knights" in XChu
> actually fairy pieces that have different looking eyes on purpose?
Indeed, these are the symbols
Ah, those look nice, at least in that size. Well, the knights' eyes look
strange in XChu.png, but fine in Lion1.png. Or are the "knights" in XChu
actually fairy pieces that have different looking eyes on purpose?
The challenge with the original pixmap pieces was to tweak the smaller
sizes to look
Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 9:49 pm schreef Tim Mann:
> It would be cool to have the old familiar piece shapes as SVG.
>
Yes, we do have an SVG set, and I think Arun copied the pieces by hand
from the original xpm pieces (and the extra ones I made for variants). So
they look as similar as you coul
IMO, there's no hope of automatic PNG to (useful) SVG, seeing that that
would involve adding information that isn't in the PNG file -- i.e., the
converter would have to guess what lines and curves the bitmap is trying to
suggest to the human eye. Maybe a sophisticated machine vision algorithm
could
> The doc files suggest that the ZIICS chess sets were in a
> format unique to ZIICS, but that the ones called "Fritz" were converted
> from Fritz -- whether with or without permission I don't know.
Well, the situation with pieces for XBoard since the switch to Cairo is
such that anything people m
I noticed I still have a copy of ziics on my computer -- I never throw
anything away. The doc files suggest that the ZIICS chess sets were in a
format unique to ZIICS, but that the ones called "Fritz" were converted
from Fritz -- whether with or without permission I don't know. Here are
some snippe
