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[RandFan]

I used to teach a course in graphic design. I created the graphic that I use for my avatar to demonstrate something. I wonder if anyone can guess what that is?

[Tricky]

Originally posted by RandFan
I used to teach a course in graphic design. I created the graphic that I use for my avatar to demonstrate something. I wonder if anyone can guess what that is?
I'm guessing it would be to demonstrate the shading effects of using a directional light source.

[Reaver]

Originally posted by Tricky

I'm guessing it would be to demonstrate the shading effects of using a directional light source.

I'm thinking the answer needs to be more religious or philosophical than that for this forum.

Althought hat would be my guess too :)

[RandFan]

Originally posted by Tricky

I'm guessing it would be to demonstrate the shading effects of using a directional light source. Hi Tricky,

Good guess but no. I'll give you a hint, it is applicable in graphic design but I chose to post my query in Religion and Philosophy

And thank you for ensuring that I got at least one guess.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by Reaver
I'm thinking the answer needs to be more religious or philosophical than that for this forum. Very good!

[Lord Emsworth]

Firstly, I'm completely at a loss what your avatar shows. But however, it looks as if it was significant.

Perhaps you used it to show that sometimes something just has to look "mysterious", significant or important to open up speculations about what it could mean, even if it doesn't mean anything at all?

[triadboy]

Originally posted by RandFan
I used to teach a course in graphic design. I created the graphic that I use for my avatar to demonstrate something. I wonder if anyone can guess what that is?

Does it have anything to do with the Holy Trinity being like a 3-egg omelette?

[Skeptical Greg]

I always thought it was a stylized ' Club ' symbol.. ( playing cards )

I also see ' eggs ', although they look more like ovoids rather than true egg shapes..

Nothing philosophical comes to mind.. But ' obvious ' allusions have a way of becoming more obvious with hind sight...

I await your explanation with curiosity..

[tamiO]

Originally posted by RandFan
I used to teach a course in graphic design. I created the graphic that I use for my avatar to demonstrate something. I wonder if anyone can guess what that is?

As I looked at it critically, it shifted. It went from three eggs and another shape to a clover? cutout hovering over a white field.

edited to add: The direction of the light reverses with the shift in perception. As eggs, the light is coming from the right. As a cutout, the light direction is from the laft.

[JimTheBrit]

The little shape in the bottom left of your avatar looks as though it fits between two ovoids. Has the graphic anything to do with showing how shapes pack together?

[RandFan]

Excellent observations all.

Originally posted by Lord Emsworth
Perhaps you used it to show that sometimes something just has to look "mysterious", significant or important to open up speculations about what it could mean, even if it doesn't mean anything at all? Wow, yes and no. How something(s) "look" and "meaning" are very important.

Originally posted by triadboy
Does it have anything to do with the Holy Trinity being like a 3-egg omelette? No but I like that.

Originally posted by tamiO
As I looked at it critically, it shifted. It went from three eggs and another shape to a clover? cutout hovering over a white field.

Originally posted by Diogenes
I always thought it was a stylized ' Club ' symbol.. ( playing cards ) And you are both right, well it's "supposed" to be a shamrock But why did you think that?

Originally posted by Diogenes
Nothing philosophical comes to mind.. But ' obvious ' allusions have a way of becoming more obvious with hind sight...

I await your explanation with curiosity.. Answer the question why it looks like a shamrock and you will have your answer.

Originally posted by tamiO
edited to add: The direction of the light reverses with the shift in perception. As eggs, the light is coming from the right. As a cutout, the light direction is from the laft. Cool, I hadn't noticed that before.

Originally posted by JimTheBrit
The little shape in the bottom left of your avatar looks as though it fits between two ovoids. Has the graphic anything to do with showing how shapes pack together? No, but it has something with showing how these particular shapes pack together.

[JimTheBrit]

So it's about perception then - how people project specific meanings onto nondescript shapes arranged in certain patterns?

[arcticpenguin]

I think it's about man's inhumanity to man.

[Darwin]

A Cross.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by JimTheBrit
So it's about perception then - how people project specific meanings onto nondescript shapes arranged in certain patterns? Oooh... very close. In a word, Sprechen ze Deutch.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by JimTheBrit
So it's about perception then - how people project specific meanings onto nondescript shapes arranged in certain patterns? Oooh... very close. In a word, Sprechen ze Deutch?

[RandFan]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin
I think it's about man's inhumanity to man. :D

[RandFan]

Originally posted by Darwin
A Cross. No but why did you post the icon of a fat woman trying to pull up her girdle?

[Darwin]

Whoa.
If you saw that in my message,I´m not even going to try and guess what your imagination has produced. :wink:

[Baker]

Originally posted by RandFan
I used to teach a course in graphic design. I created the graphic that I use for my avatar to demonstrate something. I wonder if anyone can guess what that is?

You’re an Irish poker player?

[Lord Emsworth]

Is it capability of abstraction or

auf deutsch: Abstraktionsvermögen?

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by RandFan
Oooh... very close. In a word, Sprechen ze Deutch?
Mein Hut, er hat drei Ecken.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by Lord Emsworth
Is it capability of abstraction? Oh yes, as well as the concrete. But I am only looking for a single word that deals with both. You are getting closer.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin
Mein Hut, er hat drei Ecken. I don't speak german so I would have to respond by saying, mon crayon est rouge. I don't speak french either but I loved the film Gotcha starring Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorintino. How do you say... wirgin.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by Baker
You’re an Irish poker player? This is quite true but not relevant to the point at hand. I should point out that I have the potential to be a great poker player. Unfortunatley I lack the discipline to play unemotionaly. I enjoy the playing too much to sit out when I know better.

I think Watson is Welsh extraction. I also have Scot, English and other assorted British influences in my family tree.

[RandFan]

Originally posted by Darwin
Whoa.
If you saw that in my message,I´m not even going to try and guess what your imagination has produced. Look closely, don't you see a naked fat women bent over in an attempt to pull up her girdle? Not my avitar, the yellow icon at the top of this post.