New JuliaStats logo?

[ararslan]

I think it would be nice if JuliaStats could have a distinguishing logo, just as JuliaDB and others do, rather than the same logo as JuliaLang. Here's my proposal, poorly made in the course of about 5 minutes in an MS Paint clone:

It's just the Julia dots with the normal distribution overlaid. Not super exciting but I figured that the normal distribution is pretty iconic and could work well in this scenario.

Thoughts? I'm certainly no graphic designer; this is just an idea. (Though if people do like this, I'd request that someone with decent image software make one that looks less sloppy, especially if we need transparency.)

[nalimilan]

Good idea, but the curve should be more like a normal distribution, and we should have a SVG version.

[tbreloff]

Something like this might be cool too:

[mschauer]

Isnt that a bit too much Freudian innuendo¿ ^^

[ararslan]

😖 Maybe to ameliorate that we could move the means of the red and purple distributions away from the center and decrease their variances a bit?

[tbreloff]

@mschauer I learned a lot about you today!

@ararslan Feel free to play with that bit of code and come up with something else!

[ararslan]

@tbreloff I actually can't seen to get Plots to work under 0.3, 0.4, or 0.5. But I'm fine with whatever, it was just a suggestion. 😄

[tbreloff]

@ararslan Do you mind opening a Plots issue or chatting in gitter with more details?

[ararslan]

Modification of Tom's image.

[kmsquire]

I actually like @ararslan's original idea better.

[cstjean]

The colors are a bit too flashy...

[KristofferC]

Cool!

[andreasnoack]

I like this one. Maybe without the axes?

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[mschauer]

Yes there should be noise.

[tbreloff]

I like it... similar to the one I made for JuliaML

[ararslan]

I like this one as well. But is it too similar to Tom's image for JuliaML?

[ararslan]

Bump for this discussion. @cstjean's suggestion looks great to me but I agree with @andreasnoack that the axes should be removed.

[cstjean]

I made the axes transparent and cropped it manually. I couldn't figure out how to make the background transparent, but that could be done manually too.

If anyone else wants to tweak it further:

using Plots
plotly()
N = 2000
w = 0.3
al = 0.7
m = (:circle, 2.5, 0.4, stroke(0))
l = 2.5
scatter(randn(N)*w, randn(N)*w+2, color=:green, size=(200,200), legend=false, alpha=al, marker=m, grid=false, foreground_color=RGBA(0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0), xlims=(-l,l), ylims=(1-l, 1+l))
scatter!(randn(N)*w-1, randn(N)*w, color=:red, alpha=al, legend=false, marker=m)
scatter!(randn(N)*w+1, randn(N)*w, color=:purple, alpha=al, legend=false, marker=m)

[ararslan]

I don't know how much the transparent background actually matters; the JuliaMath logo's background is white, for example.

[ararslan]

Modified @cstjean's to reduce the height so that the dot centers form an equilateral triangle and made the background transparent.

[quinnj]

+1