Which Signature Graphic Is Better?

[Javacat]

I was just in the process of writing a post with a copy of the script in when my router died. I'm now on another computer in another room and don't have a copy of the script on me. I should be able to post it when I get my other computer back online tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Thomas Dequinas]

I prefer 1 because you have Mary getting beat up. I may possibly prefer 2 if you had her kicking someone else's ass. On it's own I like Sonic graphics on the first sig. What would be great if it was a mix of both but if I had to choose from the two, I'd say #1.

 

[DavidBeoulve]

Thank you Javacat! I look forward to the post.

Yes, it seems that some people love Mary getting beaten, other dislike any woman getting beaten, some people love Sonic, and others don't.

What I find interesting is that, as an artist, I'm only interested in aesthetics, not statements. People seem to pull those out on their own - perhaps this is how normal people with left brains that work think. They see something and try to derive meaning from the symbols, not the composition.

If I were a professional artist by trade, I'm sure I would have already studied this in-depth at a University.

At any rate, it's quite fun for me to read everyone's comments. I value them all because art is - well, important because it can be shared. No artist draws great works and then hides them.

 

[triksR4rabits]

Awww man, how could you go with 1! Maybe its my love of beat-em-ups, but I really liked number 2. I'm with you on this one in terms of aesthetics; it never occurred to me that it's a pic of a woman being beaten. hell, it's not; anyone who can kick my ass is a freakin man. Anyways, go with 2!

 

[Shikkers]

The only reason I picked 2 is because it brought back reminiscent memories of my days when I played King of Fighters in the arcades. Hence me using the names from King of Fighters and not the names from the default Beats of Rage (I've played it before, good project).

Pick whatever you want, I just wanted to say why I chose 2...

 

[DavidBeoulve]

I didn't go with 1. I am going with both!

Edit: For now I'll put 2 up Unless Javacat can get me that source to have them switch each page-load, it'll stay.

 

[Javacat]

HUZZAH! I know have an internet on my computer . Here's the message I was in the middle of writing yesterday when my old router died:

My current avator script is abit bloated and somewhat buggy. It resizes images on the fly and does some other crazy stuff. It's still a work in progress though and I don't want to release it for general use.

However, if your images are all already the right size n stuff the code below should work nicely. I've given it a quick test and it appears fine.

Create a folder called something like "signature.jpg" and save the below code in a file called index.php. Stick all of your images into this folder. That's it

<?
   function GetFileList($dirname, $extension = FALSE, $reverse = FALSE)
   {
	  if(!$extension) //EXTENSIONS OF FILE YOU WANNA SEE IN THE ARRAY
	  $extension = array("jpg", "png", "jpeg", "gif");
	 
	  $files = array();
	  $dir = opendir($dirname);
   
	  while(false !== ($file = readdir($dir)))
	  {
		 //GET THE FILES ACCORDING TO THE EXTENSIONS ON THE ARRAY
		 for ($i = 0; $i < count($extension); $i++)
		 {
			if (eregi("\.". $extension[$i] ."$", $file))
			{
			  $files[] = $file;
			}
		 }
	  }
	 
	  //CLOSE THE HANDLE
	  closedir($dir);
	  //ORDER OF THE ARRAY
	  if ($reverse) {
		 rsort($files);
	  } else {
		sort($files);
	 }
	 return $files;
   }
   
   function GetRandomFile($dirname, $extension = FALSE, $reverse = FALSE)
   {
	  $files = GetFileList($dirname,$extension,$reverse);
	  $files_randmax = count($files) - 1;
	  $files_num = rand(0,$files_randmax);
	  $files_name = $dirname."/".$files[$files_num];
	  return $files_name;
   }

   $document_root = ".";
   
   $img_file = GetRandomFile($document_root);

   header('Content-type: image/jpeg');

   $handle = fopen($img_file, "r");
   while (!feof($handle)) {
	  $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
	  echo $buffer;
   }
   fclose($handle);
?>

Let me know if it doesn't work.