Just made myself a new signature
(See below)
Cool! I really like the Mobius twist. (LOL PUN!!!)
Bob, the rainbow infinity symbol is for autism acceptance. There's a version of it in the AFF logo, but I like the bright rainbow better than the pastel one AFF has got, so I made my own.
I don't get it.
That is a cool sig!
The Mobius strip is a strip taped together with a twist in it. It's supposed to have one side.
One side, and one edge as well. It's a pretty effing cool shape.
There are 3-d versions too--solids whose inside and outside are the same surface.
should i make one?
When i saw so many people on the forum with their own "Rainbow-Infinity Symbols" I knew I got thinking that I wanted to make one for myself...
Now, that's what I currently use for my avatar on MSN.
It represents also for me the fact that even tho I have had lots of bad relationships and stuff happen because of my AS... I am still proud to be an Aspie and don't wish to change for I like the person that I am.
Okay, here's how I made the infinity symbol in my sig, using MS Paint and the blur tool on a photo editing program:
Put the 6 colors of the rainbow side by side, about 50 pixels of each, on MS Paint.
Stretch that picture so that you have a rainbow with vertical bands.
Blur the graphic until it looks like a rainbow.
Copy the rainbow graphic to another file, then darken that image until you have a dark rainbow.
Create a figure-8 of the same size as your rainbow graphic, using the Paint program's line and curve tools. (It's easier if you make just one quarter of it, then copy, paste, flip twice; for symmetry).
Color the outside of the figure-8 graphic black, the inside white, and the lines gray.
Set White=background and copy the rainbow graphic into the figure-8 graphic.
Set Gray=background and copy the dark rainbow graphic into the figure-8 graphic.
Fill the black areas with white. (You had to have them black to begin with so that the rainbow wouldn't copy itself onto them.)
Create a green/dark green gradient by blurring a square of green and dark green, the same way the rainbow was created.
Cut out the area of the infinity symbol where there ought to be a shadow, where the two "ribbons" cross. For me, this area was green.
Color the cut-out area white.
Set white=background.
Copy the green gradient into the white area. You now have a dark-green shadow where one ribbon crosses the other.
Write whatever text you want, using whatever font you want.
Save the whole thing as a .jpg, losing most of the image detail. (Grrrr! Stupid photobucket!)
That would be so ultimate if someone made a bracelet out of that, like using the infinity sign and having a clasp at one loop and a little thing for it at the other. Not a jewelry person but my wrists are weird today and it would be nice to compress them somehow. . .
Some say autism is worse than cancer , because people with autism dont die
I've always seen that as a plus, personally... *grins*
I cant at the moment remember the ladies name , to whom that was said , it will come to me in the middle of the nite I guess. Anyway , she was the lady from canada who was fired by the postal service up there when it was revealed she was on the spectrum...she has turned into quite the expert on autism...hated by the medical profession....because her views are completely different. As soon as I remember her name I will let you know . Cancer is a problem you get over by dying while an autistic lives a long and normal life span without a cure....obviously the person who said this pitied the autistic
Ah, that would be Michelle Dawson. I think the case is still ongoing...
I do like the symbol. I once found a similar one online and use it to compare the traditional puzzle ribbon for what symbolizes autism.
Mine is a bit bigger. I actually dont remember how big, but something more than 1m.
It's gouache on plywood, painted with a brass-brush
here it is, forgot in in the former message