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That smoking spy icon in Ritchie's screenshot gives me flashbacks to mid-90s childhood. I remember seeing it around quite a bit for a while, but can't remember
by bsd_ 11y ago
That smoking spy icon in Ritchie's screenshot gives me flashbacks to mid-90s childhood. I remember seeing it around quite a bit for a while, but can't remember where. Anyone know where it's from?
- benjarrell 11y agoIt is a face, aka picon. It reminds me of the GameSpy logo. It appears to be the default face for unknown. Info about faces in Plan 9: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index.html http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index... doesn't seem to load but is cached is http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CkBURrovRf0J:plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CkBURro... Database of faces/picons: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/ http://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/
- f2f 11y agothe original paper describing "faces" is here: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/face_the_nation/ http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/face_the_nation/