Re: Postscript and PM3D file size.

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Roger Fearick wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>Petr Mikulik wrote:
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>>>>So anyway, why doesn't Gnuplot have a mascot?  :)
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>>>That's why I've put on the new web page "Screenshots" section that icon with
>>>a bug (icon used on OS/2 -- what the icon on other OSes?). Isn't that a
>>>mascot? Who drew it?
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>>What?!  Gnuplot's mascot is a bug?  I don't think that is a good idea...  :)
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>>It does look like a bug (a black widow spider... with four legs), but I 
>>think it is supposed to be  the face of a gnu amidst a rectangle 
>>representing a plot, i.e., gnu-plot.
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>>Dan
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>I drew it.
>It is meant to be the face of a gnu superimposed on a plot.
>It was based on a careful study of the small herd of black
>wildebeest in a field on the lower mountain slopes about
>a kilometre from here.
>On the other hand, I don't claim to be an artist.
>Roger.
>

Oh really?  You're from Cape Town.  Fascinating...  Out of curiousity, a 
search turns up the following:  (The first picture looks surprisingly 
like the icon.  What's odd is that there seems to be quite a variation 
in the direction of the horns.)

http://www.seaworld.org/AnimalBytes/wildebeestab.html
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordates/craniata/mammalia/artiodactyla/eastern-white-bearded-wildebeest.htm
http://www.m-w.com/mw/art/gnu.htm
http://www.gnuworld.com/gnus
http://www.onime.com/Africa/herbivores/antilope/whitebeardedgnu.html