[uniquename] 2012nov22

Over the past several months (Aug through Nov 2012), I have made about 10
utilities to make nice images (on a Tk canvas) that can be used for

   * logo backgrounds
   * icon backgrounds
   * rectangular buttons
   * round bullets.

These can be used to embellish Tk GUI's and to embellish web pages.

I think it would be helpful to collect some images from those utilities
to give a quick overview (on one page) of the nice images that can
be put to good use in making nice Tk GUI's, nice web pages, and nice logos.

From the page [GUI for Drawing a 'Super-Formula' Shape, with nice shaded border],
here are a few images showing that one can make nice images
for logo backgrounds or icon backgrounds --- in a variety of
shapes: star-like, petal-like, snowflake-like.

[uperformula_shaded_defaults_disk12points_magentaONblack_884x533.jpg]

[superformula_shaded_starfish6legs_redONblack_885x524.jpg]

[superformula_shadedEdge_disk34points_cyanOnblack_882x522.jpg]

From the page [GUI for Drawing a Disk with centered lighting and with nice shading],
here is an image showing that one can make nice disk-like or sphere-like
images for logo backgrounds or icon backgrounds --- or, by reducing the
size quite a bit, images for 'bullets' for web pages and Tk GUI's.

[disk_lightedANDedgeShaded_yellow-red-black_GUIscreenshot_666x467.jpg]

And if you want some disks/spheres on which the lighting-highlight is
off-center, from the page
[GUI for Drawing 'Gradient Spheres' (lighted disks), with lots of control],
there are images like the following. (The edges are not 'feathered' quite as
nicely as the images above, but these may still be useful.)

[colorGradient_sphereOnCanvas_screenshot_606x430.jpg]

[colorGradient_sphereEllipticalOnCanvas_screenshot_606x431.jpg]

I plan to crop some of these images and add some text using my
'TitleBlock' utility at the page
[A GUI for making 'Title Blocks' ... with text, fonts, colors, images],
to make some logo images, from these images, to demonstrate here.

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'''Buttons'''

From the page [GUI for Drawing Rectangular 'Buttons' with nice shaded edges],
here is an image showing that one can make nice rectangular images for
use in making buttons for Tk GUI's.

[rectangleEdgeShaded_ydirColorGradient_screenshot_700x439.jpg]

And if you want nice looking buttons with rounded corners, from the page
[GUI for Drawing 'Super-ellipses', with nice shaded edges], here are a couple
of nice rounded-corners button images --- for exponent N=6 and N=22.

[superellipse_n6_colorShaded_magentaOnBlack_602x439.jpg]

[superellipse_n22_shadedEdge_magentaOnBlack_602x440.jpg]

(I may add a color-gradient capability to the super-ellipse-with-nice-shaded-edges
utility someday --- to get even nicer buttons with rounded corners.)

These button images could be used in combination with the techniques
that I have demonstrated on the page
[Version 2 of a demo of THEMES for Tk GUI's, using images and colors]
--- to make some 'embellished' Tk GUI's.

I may make a Version 3 demo, demonstrating a way of making buttons
with rounded corners --- for buttons with varying text lengths on the
buttons.

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'''Holy Logos, Batman.'''

And for another approach to making backgrounds for logos and icons,
on the page [GUI for Drawing a 3D Donut (a ring) with nice shaded edges],
there are images like the following 'black hole' (or other colored hole)
images.

[donutMakingGUI_edgeShaded_magentaONblack_screenshot_590x415.jpg]

[donut_edgeShaded_magentaONblack_logo_effie_gimp_300x290.jpg]

[donut_edgeShaded_magentaONblack_logo_effie_inkscape_329x262.jpg]

In fact, one of these images was used in my 'TitleBlock' utility,
posted at [A GUI for making 'Title Blocks' ... with text, fonts, colors, images],
to make the following image --- made from an image placed on
the canvas and then adding some text on the canvas, to the right
of the image.

[titleBlockGUI_effie_FE_FreedomEnvironment_823x446.jpg]

And here is an example of using a combination of images and
text in the 'TitleBlock' utility to pay homage to our
favorite programming language.

[titleBlockGUI_TkRules_screenshot_819x445.jpg]

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'''More Types of Logo/Icon/Button/Bullet Images To Come'''

This is just a start at making nice quality objects for embellishing
Tk GUI's (and web pages) --- using Tk GUI's to make those objects.

I have some other utilities (Tk scripts) in the works that can be
used to make logo/icon/button/bullet images in somewhat
different ways:

   * f(x,y) 3D plot utilties
   * 3D model examining utilities
   * gradient spline utilities
   * gradient f(x)/f(y) utilities
   * enhancement of some of the 'nice edges' utilities above

And I have not really explored yet what I/we can do with the
image creation utility:

[Functional Imaging with a High-Capacity GUI]

and the image editing utility:

[GUI for Editing Photo-images with Functions]

So check back in a few months for more examples of
logo/icon/button/bullet images --- and pointers to
the pages with the code that made those images.

Tk, I want to show all those nay-sayers out there that
say 'Tk is dead' that you are not dead at all. You
were only taking a little nap.