On 2007/07/12 18:21, Thomas Bieg wrote:
>
> And here's a version that has the letters of "pkg" and "src" on
> connected surfaces (and thus readable from the right perspectives):
> http://www.3tb.de/netbsd/pkgsrc-model-v2-readable.png

Warning: following is from a graphics-challenged user..

This is cool.  What if you lay out the surfaces like so:

     p

     k  g  s

           r  c

This way you maintain the construction set and get readability in both 2-D and
3-D representations (the different colors for 'pkg' and 'src' surfaces make
this look better than it does in ASCII... 8-) ).  And if the whole thing is
rotated counter-clockwise by PI/4, but the letters remain vertical, something
like:

               s       c

     p     g       r

        k


you actually improve readability for 3-D w/o hurting for 2-D, IMO.

Cheers,
Mark