Zygo Blaxell's Penguin Page

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I'm spending way too much time on The GIMP. I have little to no artistic talent, but GNU makes it too easy to play with penguins.

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"Fear the Penguin." Simple. Big.
This is a design my SO helped with. She really hated the "Fear the Penguins" image and so this is the replacement. She liked it so much she installed it at work. Try to imagine this on a 21-inch (or larger) monitor.

"Fear the Penguins." A reaction to Bright Eye Productions's "Don't Fear the Penguins" T-shirts and the recent storm of media attention for Linux. Works well underneath an xdm login widget.

I use both "Fear" images as input to xbanner on my Red Hat Linux systems that have X servers. This is an xwd screen dump of my web server's logon screen. My SO helped with this design, which is to say that she said what color the gradient should be and where it should go and what the aspect ratio of this will be and what the position of that shall be and I converted it into X resources. Technically speaking this image was not created with GIMP.

An unofficial Red Hat Linux logo. It comes from "Fear the Penguins" but because of alpha channel and transparency problems it lacks the GIMP "supernova" lighting effect in the background. It's also very noisy because it's a transparent GIF instead of an RGBA image. And finally it's missing an Apache feather in the Red Hat.

Linux
Anything else is just a penguin.

Non-Linux penguins complaining about Linux penguins invading their neighborhood.
No allusions to Microsoft here. Really.
This is a quick ten-minute hack, so don't go complaining that the breasts of the penguins are transparent or that there are white artifacts on their backs.

Same as above, but with extra penguins instead of modifying the same penguin image.

Rearranged penguins.

An earlier "Stampede of Penguins" version of "Fear the Penguins." This happened before I learned a few important GIMP tricks, like manipulating alpha channels.

A failed attempt to simulate infinite penguins. The XCF file has an alpha background and it doesn't translate to either GIF or JPEG very well.

A family of penguins.

Thumbnail	Description
	"Fear the Penguin." Simple. Big. This is a design my SO helped with. She really hated the "Fear the Penguins" image and so this is the replacement. She liked it so much she installed it at work. Try to imagine this on a 21-inch (or larger) monitor.
	"Fear the Penguins." A reaction to Bright Eye Productions's "Don't Fear the Penguins" T-shirts and the recent storm of media attention for Linux. Works well underneath an `xdm` login widget.
	I use both "Fear" images as input to `xbanner` on my Red Hat Linux systems that have X servers. This is an `xwd` screen dump of my web server's logon screen. My SO helped with this design, which is to say that she said what color the gradient should be and where it should go and what the aspect ratio of this will be and what the position of that shall be and I converted it into X resources. Technically speaking this image was not created with GIMP.
	An unofficial Red Hat Linux logo. It comes from "Fear the Penguins" but because of alpha channel and transparency problems it lacks the GIMP "supernova" lighting effect in the background. It's also very noisy because it's a transparent GIF instead of an RGBA image. And finally it's missing an Apache feather in the Red Hat.
	Linux Anything else is just a penguin.
	Non-Linux penguins complaining about Linux penguins invading their neighborhood. No allusions to Microsoft here. Really. This is a quick ten-minute hack, so don't go complaining that the breasts of the penguins are transparent or that there are white artifacts on their backs.
	Same as above, but with extra penguins instead of modifying the same penguin image.
	Rearranged penguins.
	An earlier "Stampede of Penguins" version of "Fear the Penguins." This happened before I learned a few important GIMP tricks, like manipulating alpha channels.
	A failed attempt to simulate infinite penguins. The XCF file has an alpha background and it doesn't translate to either GIF or JPEG very well.
	A family of penguins.