Re: Logo

Mary,

I could probably modify the logo in a graphics software to
simplify it to just a couple of colors. If you check out
http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/, the logo is the box with WICCI's
name and the Wisconsin map, so it is quite a simple logo.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu>
Date: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: Logo
To: Michael Notaro <mnotaro_at_wisc.edu>
Cc: ncl-talk NCL <ncl-talk_at_ucar.edu>

> Michael,
>
> This request falls in line with the other requests we've gotten for
> being able to import an existing image to add to an NCL image.
>
> We are in the middle of researching options for supplementing our
> back-end graphics code with cairo.
>
> This will give us features like unlimited color map sizes,
> transparency, and more output graphics formats, which will then enable
> us to import images and add to them.
>
> I've asked Fred Clare offline what he had to do to get the NCAR logo
> as a separate piece of code. Maybe it's possible to modify this to add
> your own logo.
>
> The problem with this code, I think, is that the logo has to be
> representable by whatever color map you have. If your logo uses more
> than 256 colors, then this will be problematic.
>
> Fred, please correct me if I'm wrong on this.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Michael Notaro wrote:
>
> >I want to add a Logo graphic (gif, jpg, etc) to my plot. I noticed
> >that someone emailed about this 7 years
> >ago. Has this capability been added to NCL?
> >
> >Thanks, Michael
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