What's the meaning of this!!! (your user icon)

[MRedRaider]

Okay, it is killing me. I simply must know why everyone picked their icons. Some of you have had discussions about them in random posts, but that is very hard to find.

Ben, Why the teddy bear with the sparkle?

Tst, are you thinking what I'm thinking? (yes brain, but where are we gonna find a all night tatoo parler on this side of town?)

I'll go first, I drew my monitor with the LabVIEW 8.x style splash screen.... not very creative, but when you stare at it for 8 hours a day it kinda gets embedded.

[altenbach]

I can explain the sparkle 🙂

My icon is simple and has some resemblance to me, but I changed it to an animated GIF and added a sparkle. Just for kicks and to keep it distinct form other users that use the same icon.

There is an old thread where we were talking about icon animations and everybody was trying to mock me by adding a sparkle to their icon. Some of those have survived, e.g. ben. 🙂

[tst]

It would be kind of hard for me to explain, since I have an annoying tendency of changing avatars once in a while (basically just whatever pops into my mind), but you can find some icons here.

P.S. here are some past avatars (from here😞

[TCPlomp]

My avatar:


is called 'kierewiet' or 'NutCase' it features in the dutch comic 'stamgasten' which is about a pub. My character has lost all contact with reality and concludes every album with the line:
'I like the next album better'. His normal repsonse to a typical question like 'What time is it?' would be 'Go straight ahead and take the second left'.

Kierewiet is quite popular among students.
I try to keep my avatar constant (unlike tst) and the same in different LV user communties.

Ton

[Wayne.C]

I worked up a new target for the shooting range one day and noticed that all the colors were a bit NI'ish and it had circles.  Much like the way my mind works. 

Made an icon out of it and one impulse later it was my icon.  Now if I could just put a sparkle in the bullseye.

[altenbach]

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@centerbolt wrote:
Now if I could just put a sparkle in the bullseye.

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Like this?

Message Edited by altenbach on 09-11-2007 11:40 AM

[altenbach]

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@MattH wrote:

I'll go first, I drew my monitor with the LabVIEW 8.x style splash screen.... not very creative, but when you stare at it for 8 hours a day it kinda gets embedded.

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You must be using LabVIEW 8.0! 😮

Sure, the loading time with 8.0 is a bit slower than with other versions, but I still I think an 8 hour splash screen is a bit excessive. 😄

(Could it be that your palettes are located on a server in inner Mongolia? ;))

[MRedRaider]

I didn't think it looked right with the verticle/horizontal sparkle, so i did it diagonal...

[Wayne.C]

It would appear I have finally found my NI icon G-Daddies.

[altenbach]

Diagonal is a great idea. How about a slight pan for that extra dynamic effect. 😄

(I also think it is important to keep a long delay on the first frame to increase the surprise and make it less distracting. :))

Message Edited by altenbach on 09-11-2007 12:03 PM