Ah, that works. I feel like GIMP's text paths are a little more powerful, though. I'm sure Photoshop can do equally (probably more) crazy text pathing.

Haha, very nice. I won't even say something snarky about Apple hardware in this case.

Ahahaha, props to you Souvik

That makes me think of Doors CS 10 and the Red Edition.

(More images: http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18593#18593)

Liking the design but that pivot better be sturdy, or have a notch (within the pivot mechanism) that the screen sits in so it doesn't flop/rotate around freely but I do see you have notches for that...? Love the colour idea, but the majority of the calculator would mostly run as B&W since I'm sure RGB computation requires much more memory and power than B&W programs - I'm sure someone will swoop in and direct this thread in another direction because I'm "wrong" or "incorrect" - but having the ability to display colour is a great option.

The whole device will be 5/8th's thick? That's pretty good! How would a student find the math menu and other programming/math functions?

Well, it was quiet theoretical; I'm no longer terribly happy with the swivelly form factor. Now I'm more in factor of the sliding form factor. And yes, the idea was that it would snap in the open or closed position.

Hmm, reminds me of the Motorola Flipout.

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/GB-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/MOTOROLA-FLIPOUT-with-MOTOBLUR-GB-EN

Wouldn't a sliding form factor be, in practice, significantly easier to build as well?

I don't think so. In both cases your need flexible or ribbon connectors, and for the rotating mechanism, you just need a single rotary hinge, whereas the slider need more careful balance, plus the springs to make it snap open or closed.

A simple concept I threw together for a project a friend and I are starting in the near future...

GIMP PATHS FTW!



And

What does AFB stand for? Also, I don't know how happy MLB/NBA/etc would be about you appropriating their visual style.

They'd probably sue each other (all 20 million leagues and organizations that use that r/w/b silhouette style) before they cared to sue me for some artwork I threw up on a random (to them) forum somewhere for non-commercial use XD

Thanks for your concern, though

I know, I know. So what's AFB?

Armed For Battle. It's a clan I used to run for Counter-Strike: Source WAY back in the day. After CS:S we moved to Insurgency 2.x, and then I got too focussed on school to continue it so I had to disband it and say goodbye to all 20 of it's members I accumulated

Anywho, here's some more versions I've played with...





As well as this...

Clicky

I prefer the narrower text, personally. They look great, though.

I agreed

How does the silhouette look? I made the trigger/finger too small in the first one, I think, so I changed that in the last three. Ideas? ^^,

It took forever to draw those silhouettes, though LOL. So all suggestions are welcome

I agree, the last three are definitely better in that regard. Nice job.

I think, a first for this topic but, these are two different photos? There's just too much changed to make me believe it's the same photo.

That looks to be about a two-hour Photoshop job; I think I could probably pull something like that off. Pretty depressing, isn't it?

Hair curls are the same. But yeah, depressing