Redrawing Motovun Jack

[vilc]

I know it has been quite some time and there have been many great entries. But there hasn’t been any closure or winner design, so I decided to give it a try.

I did a rather conservative approach, I tried not to change too much. I concentrated on the points that Jeremy has indicated in OP (except for the dip in the back, I left that unchanged) and adjusted minor other points (removed some redundant nodes, smoothed some corners).

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Here’s an attempt at a visual diff, old version in red, new in blue, overlap in black:

[duarte.framos]

Here is a different attempt focusing more on the head.

While I still think it is too elaborate to be an actual logo, it does have a more contained shape and better readability at small sizes. It could perhaps be simplified into one.

It is based on one of the other photos from Jeremy’s Flicker album

[linonetwo]

My point of view of completely different is completely different!

[Xrizzy]

@duarte.framos

This looks great. The Tabby that’s a Tiger inside.

[TiddlyTitch]

@JanJo

As Monty Python would say: and now for something completely different…

Coloured origami suffers from colour doing too much work.

Stick with one colour paper to convey essentials.

Anyway, did you fold this yourself?

[TiddlyTitch]

@Thomas_Chuffart

his cat who has grown up as tiddlywiki did along the years…

Has aged Moggie developed lamefootitis in the posterior sinestra legus? And Backus flatus.

[Birthe]

has aged Moggie developed lamefootitis in the sinestra legus? And Backus flatus.

He has had his struggles with Tiddlywiki and us, I guess. Now in his old age we want to use another image. Even worse we want to stop feeding him tiddlers constantly from all over the world and only deliver notes. Not easy to be an aging cat.

[TiddlyTitch]

@Thomas_Chuffart

the head looking right

Does that account for the Incipient Dromedary Syndrome?

[TiddlyTitch]

@JanJo

at the age of 19 the kitten has grown up.

A vero.

Has she suffered over years from neckus shorticus?

[jeremyruston]

Thank you to everyone, I’m enjoying this thread, and glad it’s still going.

I like @duarte.framos designs, particularly this one:

I’d love to adopt that image, perhaps as part of the visual refresh in v5.4.0. I’d welcome ideas.

It is only tangentially related, but there’s a new cat-related development in my life: two little kittens arrived in May to ease the frustrations caused by my ongoing seizures. Their mum is a Maine Coon and their dad is a Ragdoll, and they seem to have a great mix of the characteristics of both. I don’t think they are compatible enough to work as stand-ins for Jack but maybe I can drag them into the project somehow…

Best wishes

Jeremy.

[TiddlyTitch]

@jeremyruston

Jeremy.

JR, one thing missing in past depictions of TW is it’s active GENERATIVE aspect.

TW’s spawn.
They are not just static mothers.

I wonder if …

1 – We could use the mammalian LITTER as a metaphor for TW?

2 – Your images above do show you still relate to catish analogies.

[TiddlyTitch]

@Birthe

Not easy to be an aging cat.

Meow! Meow!

We are still vocal even with feline complaints.

I vote that in New versions of TW that a “Tiddler” becomes a “MEOW”??

[Ste_W]

Awwwwww! Very cute. (the cats, not you ;))

[TiddlyTitch]

@Ste_W

Awwwwww! Very cute.

Is that physics meltdown?

Is there a formula for “Awwww … ∞” relevant to finite cat appreciation?

[duarte.framos]

@jeremyruston

I’d love to adopt that image, perhaps as part of the visual refresh in v5.4.0. I’d welcome ideas.

@jeremyruston I was thinking we could also revamp the Find Out More tiddler along with the Bento layout for HelloThere.

Currently the images are a mix of different styles; maybe they could all be replaced with a new layout and a more consistent set of, say, cat themed matching images. This could include a few renditions of Motovun Jack along with a bunch of others. You new fuzzy acquisitions would be a fine addition to the pool of potential images.

We were actually discussing exactly that a few days ago in the Bento thread.

[jeremyruston]

@duarte.framos

@jeremyruston I was thinking we could also revamp the Find Out More tiddler along with the Bento layout for HelloThere.

That would be great, thank you. I will reply separately to the Bento thread.

[Xrizzy]

@TiddlyTitch

@JanJo

As Monty Python would say: and now for something completely different…

Coloured origami suffers from colour doing too much work.

Stick with one colour paper to convey essentials.

Anyway, did you fold this yourself?

Color always breaks form. But two colored papers are often used in Origami.

At least it is a truely folded model and not some fake AI Origami.

[Xrizzy]

@jeremyruston

I like @duarte.framos designs, particularly this one:

At this size (Why is it bigger in my quote? ) it really resonates with me. Very Jack like. Having had many fury friends over the years they all had their very own character: hard to replace.

@jeremyruston

Hardly anything is more comforting than a purring cat.

[JanJo]

I hope you all das the TW on the side

[Christian_Byron]

I like the cat but it needs some definition in the lines of the legs and show the eyes etc to get a sense of the pose… This is an example of one i asked Sora to do which i think shows what can be done …or might be incorporated to Motovun Jack ?