Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.
Thanks,
Brian
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
There's a nice image on the front page of the RubyGarden Wiki:
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby
and several other nice images here:
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyImages
Hope this helps,
Lyle
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:04:54 +0900, Brian Schroeder <spam0504@bssoftware.de> wrote:
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.
If you describe what you're after I will try to ray trace one for you.
James Edward Gray II
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.
This looks nice:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/diamond/gp14ruby.html
This is a picture of the largest known ruby.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:04:54PM +0900, Brian Schroeder wrote:
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.
--
Roeland
Brian Schroeder said:
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.
Don't know exactly what you are looking for, but I used the following for
one of my ruby talks ...
--
-- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
Thanks to everybody,
as always one can count on you, even though I got the feeling that I
should have found this images without your help. I surfed ruby-doc and
ruby-lang, and used google, but to no avail.
Thanks!
Brian
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.
Here's one that I masked off a few days ago:
http://homepage.mac.com/discord/big-ruby.png (~700k)
It's really difficult to find anything of a decent size; It seems that high quality pictures of gemstones don't really exist 
cheers,
Mark
On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
Thanks,
Brian
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
Thank you, but I think that would be too much effort for the cause. (But
I'm getting the feeling that it is something you'd be doing in any case,
just because it is interesting. 
in this case keep us informed.)
Brian
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:37:29 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice
ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.If you describe what you're after I will try to ray trace one for you.
James Edward Gray II
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
> slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice
> ruby
> gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
> somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
> for my talk.If you describe what you're after I will try to ray trace one for you.
If you would be willing to do this and contribute it to the WhyRuby project
(http://whyruby.rubyforge.org/\), then we could make it easily available to
anyone (also if brian would be willing to contribute his presentation, that
would be wonderful as well). A ray-traced image would be brilliant and
clear.
Here's a couple images that could serve as a model:
http://www.facetersco-op.com/Synthetics/AZ40.jpg
Buy Gemstones, Cabochons, Beads for Jewelry Making Online
The first image is clearer, but somewhat washed out, while the second has
richer color but is too dark to see all of the facets.
What would work best would be a large image (say 320x200 or 640x480) because
that could be easily scaled down for other uses.
Curt
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
i created this image a few years back for a shirt
(parseerror.com - This website is for sale! - parseerror Resources and Information.) for RubyConf
1 (used it for my (very) little cookbook at
parseerror.com - This website is for sale! - parseerror Resources and Information.) ; i still think it looks cool, however
the cut of the ruby is all wrong, it's shaped like a diamond; whereas
all the images of rubies i've seen have them cut in a circular/oval
shape. ah well.
pizza
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:48:10 +0900, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
Brian Schroeder said:
> Hello Group,
>
> I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
> slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
> gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
> somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
> for my talk.Don't know exactly what you are looking for, but I used the following for
one of my ruby talks ...--
-- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
Mark Hubbart wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
> slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice
> ruby
> gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
> somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
> for my talk.Here's one that I masked off a few days ago:
http://homepage.mac.com/discord/big-ruby.png (~700k)It's really difficult to find anything of a decent size; It seems that
high quality pictures of gemstones don't really exist
Can I add this to the WhyRuby repository? This one is pretty good. I'd still
like to get a ray traced version that's not so dark.
James, this one would probably make a better model than the images I
posted -- I think the oval shape is more interesting than round.
Curt
On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
Ryan Flynn wrote:
i created this image a few years back for a shirt
(parseerror.com - This website is for sale! - parseerror Resources and Information.) for RubyConf
1 (used it for my (very) little cookbook at
parseerror.com - This website is for sale! - parseerror Resources and Information.) ; i still think it looks cool, however
the cut of the ruby is all wrong, it's shaped like a diamond; whereas
all the images of rubies i've seen have them cut in a circular/oval
shape. ah well.
I remember that. 
I like it, it reminds me of my superman idea.
See http://www.cafepress.com/rubyshop
By the way: I'm announcing this too late to benefit this year's conference,
but 100% of all RubyShop profits go to RubyCentral.
And don't buy the poster, I'm redoing it.
Hal
pizza
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:48:10 +0900, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
Brian Schroeder said:
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.Don't know exactly what you are looking for, but I used the following for
one of my ruby talks ...--
-- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
Mark Hubbart wrote:
Hello Group,
I will give a talk on ruby, and I'm missing a nice image for the first
slide. It may be not very creative, but I'd like a picture of a nice
ruby
gem. I did not find any good images on the net, so I wondered if maybe
somebody here has a good one and would give me the permission to use it
for my talk.Here's one that I masked off a few days ago:
http://homepage.mac.com/discord/big-ruby.png (~700k)It's really difficult to find anything of a decent size; It seems that
high quality pictures of gemstones don't really existCan I add this to the WhyRuby repository? This one is pretty good. I'd still
like to get a ray traced version that's not so dark.
feel free
cheers,
Mark
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Brian Schroeder wrote:
James, this one would probably make a better model than the images I
posted -- I think the oval shape is more interesting than round.Curt
(also if brian would be willing to contribute his
presentation, that would be wonderful as well).
Shure, that was already my idea. It will be a 4*4 Hours Course on Ruby for
Computer Science Students of different years. I already decided to make
the slides in english, even though there will be only german speaking
students, but I think the community could use this for ruby advocacy.
It will be ready in the first week of october, thats when the course is
hold.
Regards,
Brian
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:17:42 +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
My contributions:
http://www.grayproductions.net/Ruby/Ruby.jpg
and
http://www.grayproductions.net/Ruby/Etched_Ruby.jpg
These images are 100% free. Anyone may use them, anywhere, for anything.
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II
On Sep 14, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
If you would be willing to do this and contribute it to the WhyRuby project
(http://whyruby.rubyforge.org/\), then we could make it easily available to
anyone (also if brian would be willing to contribute his presentation, that
would be wonderful as well). A ray-traced image would be brilliant and
clear.
I saw this after I had built a model, of course.
I've tried to give people a few choices, but if you really need an oval ruby (or some other ruby image), now or in the future, give me a shout and I'll see what I can do...
James Edward Gray II
On Sep 14, 2004, at 11:14 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
James, this one would probably make a better model than the images I
posted -- I think the oval shape is more interesting than round.
Hello,
these images are really cool. Brilliant look. But would it be possible for
you to render them again on a white background, such that it is possible
to include them in light environments. Then we'll miss the cool lense
effects, but maybe you could even try it with a white bottom plate.
Thanks a lot,
Brian
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:12:09 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
These images are 100% free. Anyone may use them, anywhere, for anything.
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
Beautiful! Were they done in povray? Is the source available?
martin
James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
My contributions:
http://www.grayproductions.net/Ruby/Ruby.jpg
and
James Edward Gray II wrote:
> James, this one would probably make a better model than the images I
> posted -- I think the oval shape is more interesting than round.I saw this after I had built a model, of course.
I've tried to give people a few choices, but if you really need an oval
ruby (or some other ruby image), now or in the future, give me a shout
and I'll see what I can do...
Thank you! Its nice to have some decent alternatives. I'll make sure to
credit you with their creation when I post them to the WhyRuby? repository.
Curt
On Sep 14, 2004, at 11:14 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
James,
This: http://www.grayproductions.net/Ruby/Etched_Ruby.jpg is almost as
beautiful as the real thing
I am awfully sorry to beg, but can you do something smaller but equally
beautiful for http://www.ruby-forum.org logo? My gratitude will be
undying.
Alex
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 18:29, James Edward Gray II wrote:
if you really need ... some other ruby image... give me a shout
and I'll see what I can do...
