Refresh icon

[cormullion]

Hi graphers! (graphistes?) Thank you for your efforts in migrating, maintaining, and updating this package, which so many of us find useful.

As a very minor contribution, here are some suggestions for a refreshed icon.

I noticed an oddity with the current icon. For some reason it's slightly transparent, which explains the subdued appearance when used with GitHub's Dark Mode.

The current icon also uses the OG Julia duotone colour design, which was replaced by single colours sometime around v1.2.

[jpfairbanks]

I really like option 4!

[etiennedeg]

I personally like the old logo, with refreshed colors. It is more minimalist. Perhaps with smaller dots and slightly bigger edges, and with edges in another color (or with a background, like logos 1,4,5,6)

[ViralBShah]

Is this the logo for the org or just the package?

[ViralBShah]

Maybe @davpoolechem wants to use 6 for JuliaChem! Or perhaps @rkurchin may be interested for a chemistry use of that logo.

[jpfairbanks]

Yeah the the 6th option really looks chemical! I like number 4 because it reminds me of a scaled down version of the Petersen Graph. We could combine option 4 and 5 and to get the 4-Petersen graph. a 4 clique connected to a 4 cycle.

[ViralBShah]

I like 4 too.

[rkurchin]

Thanks for the ping, @ViralBShah! I may well be interested, and would also love to play with it myself, if @cormullion is happy to send the code for generating it along 😄

[cormullion]

@rkurchin here - I found it too difficult to make a simple graph network that didn't look like a molecule. 😄

[cormullion]

4 + 5

[etiennedeg]

I like this one, why not illustrating graph coloration (this one is 3 colorable) ?

[jpfairbanks]

yeah if we rotate the colors on the outer square by 90deg clockwise, I think we can adopt this logo

[cormullion]

Cool, thanks!

PNG:

SVG: (zipped)
julia-graphs.svg.zip

Code:

https://gist.github.com/cormullion/b1f11b0eaba45252a11269e893e88df5

[gdalle]

So should we change the profile picture of the org? And perhaps add it to the documentation of Graphs.jl?

[gdalle]

I just have a question: is it just me or do the edges look slightly blurred? Is that the desired effect?

[cormullion]

Yes, the faux 3D effect might look a bit blurry when seen large:

But it's designed to work better when icon-sized:

It can of course be taken to the bike-shed for further modification. 😃

[cormullion]

Awesome, thanks!