[arch-dev-public] Kernel framebuffer logo

[James Rayner]

On Fri, January 25, 2008 20:06, Damir Perisa wrote:
> hi Thayer,
>
> Friday 25 January 2008, Thayer Williams wrote:
>  | My method for making the kernel logo:
>  | Â  1. Extract a png from the svg sources
>  | Â  2. Resize and optimize the colour depth with GIMP/Fireworks
>  | Â  3. Use pngtopnm (after patching our netpbm package)
>  | Â  4. Use pnmtoplainpnm to finish it off
>
> i use the following:
>
> 1 export png in inkscape
> 2 flatten image  (gimp)
> 3 gaussian blur ~=1/100 of image width = pixel (120px final wide pic has
>   1.2 px gaussian blur - makes it easier to dither sharp edges later)
> 4 resize to 120x120 px
> 5 put in indexed colourspace, use FS dithering
> 6 export image to ppm respectively to pbm
> 7 build kernel to test it (i'm compiling right now)

As said above, gimp exports fine:
http://iphitus.loudas.com/arch/ck/misc/logo.png

Did that a few years ago as a bit of a joke. Out of curiosity, I did one
later that was big enough to only allow 1 line of text. Made a nice fake
bootsplash, but of course wasnt remotely practical.