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Ibex-> Earth Blue with a fresh determined look - Parthsarathi Trivedi

The blends of blue used in this wallpaper are derived from the same colour palette that God used when designing our planet. Aditionally, 70% of the human body consists of water. Although water itself is transparent, the great bodies of water enhance the blues in the skies by echoing the colours through the H20. Plain and simple, this wallpaper defines the Ibex as an animal who is determined, fearless and invulnerable to intimidation. Just like the operating system. The horns of this animal are rendered in this image with bold highlights and shadows, against a fresh background designed by me, specially for this piece. The eye of this animal has been given special attention to detail and makes the Ibex come alive on your desktop. I give you a wallpaper as futuristic yet simple as the operating system itself.

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9655/previewibexia8.png

I would be happy to answer any queries and suggestions at parthsarathitrivedi@gmail.com. Feel free to email me. A link to the full widescreen wallpaper is given below. I will be able to produce the wallpaper in a variety of resolutions if/when required.

Deviant ART Link http://rebirthoflight.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Intrepid-Ibex-85898258

Parthsarathi Trivedi

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Ibex in the Style of Hardy

Who did the hardy wallpaper? I think it would be neat to have that same person do the Ibex wallpaper. Salane Ashcraft

I did not create the Hardy wallpaper but really like it as well. I think that wallpapers in the style of the hardy wallpaper create a very distinct look, while still showing consistency over several releases. I started working on a similar wallpaper for Intrepid. So far it is just a b/w svg-image which was traced from a picture. The [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Capra_ibex_ibex_–_03.jpg original picture] from wikipedia commons by Nino Barbieri is published under GFDL as well as CC-BY. I actually don't know if that fulfills Ubuntus requirements as for a free license - can somebody let me know? I chose this picture because the horns are so nicely circular, reminding me of the circle of friends. I'm not sure if I should make the reference more clear in a final version of the picture.

attachment:BackgroundIbexAtrejuThumb.png

In the current state the svg (see below list of attachments) still needs a lot of work. I'm sort of happy with the outline but now it needs to be filled with color which I only just started doing (and all the stuff is stolen from FelaKuti, so credit the maker there...) Any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated, as is anyone who wants to work on this with me. -- Atreju Tauschinsky --

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Ibex front view

It is hard to repeat the artwork style of FelaKuti, so I figured I might get things started by making a line drawing of the frontal view of an ibex. Here is the result. I just could not find a frontal view online... so I looked at a few and used my imagination... apparently my imagination is not all that bad!

attachment:ibex.svg

I do not know how to make a preview of the drawing guys... could someone please somehow do it for me?

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Intrepid Ibex in the Sands

This is based on a hand drawn sketch I made. I scanned and played with GIMP to make the colours and background fit, but it's far from complete.

I hope that someone else will continue the work - everything is GPL'ed - just send me a mail (don[dot]s[at]yodanism[dot]org) if you want the source xcf or original scanned picture.

Sakse "Don S" Dalum

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Abstraction

This is actually an edited photo taken with a very slow shutter speed. I also have a human version that looks more like Fiesty...

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5453/uiixyt5.jpg

Image is available in 3072x2304 and is very high quality.

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Sunny Ibex

Made with Inkscape. It needs polishing, I'll keep updating it. I can't promise to do it very often though, I should been studying for my exams!

Open Source Photos

Truism of the day: photography can be beautiful. People love looking at pictures. That is why I suggest including a decent selection of 5 to 7 open source photographs in future release of Ubuntu, starting with Intrepid Ibex. Not the default wallpaper, just some alternates. I suggest the following images be included as alternates, based on the way they compliment Ubuntu's Brown/Black/Orange colors. All were downloaded from the Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), and *I beleive* can be used free of license issues. The only way I edited these images was to convert them from JPEG to PNG. I present them here in their original demensions, but I would be happy to resize them if the art team wants to use them and give me some busy work -Brian Fleeger

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Reichstag_Inside_Dome_15.JPG

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hibiscus_petal.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Copenhagen_Metro_escalators.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:TulipStair_QueensHouse_Greenwich.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Piles_of_Salt_Salar_de_Uyuni_Bolivia_Luca_Galuzzi_2006_a.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Roasted_coffee_beans.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Citrus_fruits.jpg

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• Please, comment any idea you have to improve this wallpaper. -- IñigoAlonso DateTime(2008-06-01T14:03:21Z)

• The first one is creepy. The Hardy Heron rip-off is beautiful but needs more form to the Ibex. The third, fourth (and was there a fifth?) I don't like. They seem to plain or childish.-- Brettalton DateTime(2008-06-18T22:12:52Z)

Orange Feathers

This would probably have been a bit better for Hardy as it depicts the feathers of a bird's tail (a chicken!). I think this is great as it uses ubuntu's default colors, but is more interesting than a boring brown...

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/1061/chickentl0.png

I hope you like it. P.S. This is my first attempt at doing something like this, i'm just getting involved in this great community - so, sorry if it comes out wrong, etc!

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Ibex, et cetera

I was looking to find out more on what an Ibex actually is, and stumbled across the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibex).

I drew a correlation between the circular shape of the Ibex horn and the Circle of Friends logo. This is the end result:

I realize it may be a faux pas to hide part of the CoF, and if so, I apologize. Any suggestions or (constructive) criticisms are greatly welcome. Although I have been an avid fan of Ubuntu since way back in the 4.10 days, this is my first foray into the Ubuntu community. I hope it's well received!

./CF

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