Hi all,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/9 Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 9 Dec 2008, at 04:05, Jameson Quinn wrote:<br> <br> > Just out of curiosity: that is a squirrel, not a possum, right? I<br> > mean, it is a "rascally rodent", so it would have to be. What is its<br> > name?<br> </blockquote><div><br>Phew, for once I can wear my other hat as a science teacher and not feel so out of place on this list with all the super IT experts. It's name is <i>Petaurus breviceps</i> :-D<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Frank (Frankie), yea he's a flying squirrel.<br> <br> > (It is amazing how hard it is to distinguish the sugar glider from a<br> > flying squirrel, given that we are much closer genetically to a<br> > squirrel than the sugar glider is.)<br> </blockquote><div><br>The Australian sugar glider is a marsupial. Some of you would be curious to know that it has a pouch and is related to the kangaroo and koala, not the mouse or squirrel.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> If we went for a similar level of quality render as to Frankie, the<br> colour patterning (black ears, black/white face stripes, grey body<br> rather than brown) and face details (pink nose, black eyes) should<br> make a pretty distinct character design, but most people at best, will<br> still just think it's a flying squirrel.<br> </blockquote><div><br>Markings are not a big deal .. room for lots of interpretation. All cool and cute!<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> P.S. If there was a general desire to go 3d, I'd be willing to build,<br> render and release the data, but I'd not want to burn the hours until<br> there was some form of consensus on needing a mascot, and some<br> examples of how/where it would be used to good effect. The Sugar UI<br> style is symbolic/abstract, so a good design should leverage that<br> Sugar art direction (i.e 3D realistic or cartoon styles are really too<br> different to fit comfortably in my opinion).</blockquote><div><br>I probably got this ball rolling, didnt want it to take up all your time folks. It was just a thought after looking at the styling used for Firefox and Thunderbird. I dread long meetings that rabbit on about the colour of conference bags. Please don't let this stop or distract you all from the bigger mission :-)<br> <br>Regards Roland <br></div></div><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>