[Sca-cooks] Re: Arms, OT...

[Kolfrosta]

There is a program out there called Blazon, but it's fairly primitive and
I'm not sure how to add stuff onto it.  You can check it out at
download.com and look for Blazon.  I also have a whole collection of
heraldic pieces in black and white just waiting to be filled.   This is how
I designed my device.  I can't remember where I got it, so I can't give
credit where credit is due, but I can aways check my bookmarks and use one
of them to find who designed these pretty pictures. :)  It took a bit of
design savvy with photoshop to actually get my device finished to be
submitted, but I can always help out if you'd like. :)

Kolfrosta


>About twelve years ago I was working on a similar project. I wanted to
>develop a common library of heraldic charges and basic backgrounds
>and such and make them available for use with paint programs. Then you
>could sit down and quickly paste together a design. Don't like gules?
>click, click and that area is now blue. Want two charges on a bend
>rather than one? click, click done.
>
>Unfortunately, I was doing this on an Amiga computer and the rest of
>the world was on Macs which only had b + w or on PCs which have
>  only crude graphics if that and there was no common graphics
>interchange format.
>
>I've kept expecting someone to do this in the intervening years.
>Today, I'd still want that common interchange format and I'd want
>to do it with vector graphics so things could easily be scaled
>instead of simple bit graphics.
>
>Like the Florilegium, the idea would be to use the willing expertise
>of the SCA folks to build up a library of freely distributable
>heraldic art pieces after I'd gotten it going.
>
>Well, if anyone wants to take this on, I will offer space on the
>Florilegium website to hold this library.
>
>--
>THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
>**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****
>
>
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