Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> 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-) ).

I already tried that (with a slightly different layout), but didn't post
it 'cause I like the horizontal layout better.

But since you asked... ;-)
http://www.3tb.de/netbsd/pkgsrc-model-v2-humanreadable.png


> 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.

Good chance to dig out some ASCII art :)

         /\  /\
        /s \/c \
   /\  /\  /\  /
  /p \/g \/r \/
  \  /\  /\  /
   \/k \/  \/
    \  /
     \/

I see your point in that, still I think it would look a bit too asymmetric
and cluttered (at least for my eyes). But I could try it nevertheless.

Regards,
Tom