Vote Decision 2010

But my votes are: #1 Star with disks #6 Star with binary #7 Green/red curves only #10 Funnel #11 Star with gear #12 Book with ? I'm ambivalent on the meat. It says RAW, no question, though it's not immediately intuitive what it's for (at least not to me). As a regular user, I'm sure it would be fine. Then again, if it offends someone... we should definately use it!

...from people at Citizen Sky is awesome. I love your work too Nico. My current vote/comments: 1. New star from database, I like both. 6. Raw mode: binary + star.As I've mentioned to you, although I appreciate what the raw meat icon conveys, and it has a certain comical quality, I don't think it's ideal here. 7. Phase plot: I love the 2nd icon, and it's consistent with what I was suggesting in our initial correspondence, but I agree that once scaled down, it's hard to read. The one with two sinusoids is nice, but I'd like to consider using that one for Polynomial Fit, for which a toolbar icon does not yet exist. Would it be possible to to just use the phase plot of a star by itself, e.g. the dep Cep one I think I already sent you? What do others think? Is there a phase plot of a dataset you know that would have a good visual effect? 10. Filter/search observations: I like both the binos and the funnel. The funnel is closer to 'filter' than the binos which is more like 'search'. So, I don't mind, but I'm leaning towards the funnel. 11. Preferences: the cog + star. 12. Help: the book. While I think of it, at some point I will need a "stop" button (for interrupting long-running operations). Not in the next week or so though. :) Thanks again Nico! Regards, David

For #1: bookcase

For #6: binary code

For #7: line curves For #10: bino's look great For #11: paired gears For #12: Life preserver looks best in small icon size

Hi! I like all of them except a few that will look rather weird scaled down: * the meat thing .... Hard to iconify the notion of RAW, maybe you can use something that negates a filter or modificaton (a "filter icon" that is crossed out or something). Or if you want to use meat, maybe a T-bone thing would look better at small scales :-) * for 7 : the one with the two sinoids * for 10: binos * for 11: 2nd one (two wheels) Just my 2cents HB

For 1, I like the one which has the bookcase (the other version looks to much like an oil barrel) For 6, I agree that some people will be seriously turned off by the raw meat, so I prefer the one with binary For 7, I prefer the one with tow curves (even though I think a phase plot implies only one curve). The alternative is beautiful but too crowded when reduced in size For 10, I prefer the binoculars. The funnel has too many addition ambiguous interpretations For 12, I prefer the two gears For 13, I like the book with the question mark on it best Beautiful work, Nico! Cheers, Doug

Those are great. And I love the raw meat symbol for raw data. :) Ilike the first #7 and the 2nd #12.

Make sure whatever icon you like, that it looks good and understandable when it will be reduced to its final size of 24 X 24px (the small icons are true to size when seen the jpg at 100%.)