<http://www.duarteramos.pt/media/share/DPFR_tiddlywikiposter_TiddlerB.jpg>
Updated version with some small color tweaks and size adjustments to better 
fit new paper size, also added a slight shadow to help the little tiddler 
pop out a little more.

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:40:07 UTC, Duarte Farrajota Ramos wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.
>
> Haha didn't know about the babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the 
> Galaxy, so that must be where the name of the old yahoo translation website 
> came from.
>
> I did forget to mention the ideia behind it all, this was actually 
> inspired by an idea that ran quite some time ago back when you were 
> searching for an official icon for TiddlyWiki. I always thought the word 
> *tiddler 
> *came from *tiddly* as small or compact and simple, but apparently as 
> Stephen mentioned it is also a fish species whose scientific name, 
> according to Wikipedia, is Three-Spined Stickleback.
> Doing a Google search I found a few nice images which I use as reference 
> reference, and the colors are actually more or less accurate according to 
> the last image found in this website <http://imgkid.com/stickleback.shtml>, 
> with some artistic liberties in the mix of course.
>
> So it should be pretty straightforward now, the fish obviously came from 
> the "tiddler" species, and those lines, that "go in" all tangled and "come 
> out" straight and lined up represent how tiddlywiki is great for organizing 
> and displaying your information in a neat and customizable fashion. The 
> triangulated "low poly" style 
> <https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&lr=lang_en%7Clang_pt&q=low%20poly%20vector>
>  
> seems to be pretty much "the thing" currently throughout the internet, did 
> my best to capture that feeling.
>

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