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> Vaughan Pratt (who directed the SUN workstation project at Stanford from 1980 to 1982) is the genius who designed the origin Sun Microsystems logo. It was ori

by JadeNB 3y ago

> Vaughan Pratt (who directed the SUN workstation project at Stanford from 1980 to 1982) is the genius who designed the origin Sun Microsystems logo. It was originally square. > John Gage (who was on Richard Nixon's enemy list) is the good troublemaker who thought of turning it 45 degrees like a diamond. He was Sun's Science Officer. Just to have it said, without taking anything away from the admiration of the logo, a square that is rotated 45 degrees is still a square.

LordShredda 3y ago
Depends on the basis axes maybe
DonHopkins 3y ago
I'm quite aware of that and many other basic geometric definitions, which is exactly why I said "like a diamond" to be clear. PostScript Sun Logo by Bill Meine: https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-logo1.ps https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-l... PostScript Sun Logo by Craig Leres: https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-logo2.ps https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-l...
- JadeNB 3y ago
  > I'm quite aware of that and many other basic geometric definitions, which is exactly why I said "like a diamond" to be clear. Sure, I would have been very surprised at the thought that you weren't. I was just responding to the statement that the logo was "originally square", which seemed like an odd way to describe something that is still (more or less) square (except as the set-up for a Mitch Hedberg joke). But, of course, it is not wrong. > PostScript Sun Logo by Bill Meine: > PostScript Sun Logo by Craig Leres: I don't have a native PS viewer, but, when I ran those through PS2PDF, both were in the same orientation, only one had solid black characters and one had white characters with black outlines. Is that a problem with my PDF distiller? (But now I see that those are not attributed to Pratt and Gage, as in your original post, so maybe you are just showing later variations on the theme.)

by JadeNB 3y ago

LordShredda 3y ago

Depends on the basis axes maybe

DonHopkins 3y ago

I'm quite aware of that and many other basic geometric definitions, which is exactly why I said "like a diamond" to be clear. PostScript Sun Logo by Bill Meine: https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-logo1.ps https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-l... PostScript Sun Logo by Craig Leres: https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-logo2.ps https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-l...

JadeNB 3y ago
> I'm quite aware of that and many other basic geometric definitions, which is exactly why I said "like a diamond" to be clear. Sure, I would have been very surprised at the thought that you weren't. I was just responding to the statement that the logo was "originally square", which seemed like an odd way to describe something that is still (more or less) square (except as the set-up for a Mitch Hedberg joke). But, of course, it is not wrong. > PostScript Sun Logo by Bill Meine: > PostScript Sun Logo by Craig Leres: I don't have a native PS viewer, but, when I ran those through PS2PDF, both were in the same orientation, only one had solid black characters and one had white characters with black outlines. Is that a problem with my PDF distiller? (But now I see that those are not attributed to Pratt and Gage, as in your original post, so maybe you are just showing later variations on the theme.)