You can wait, but by then we will have made flags and chosen one.
We aren't going to be a country of millions.

Agreed, we have more practical concerns at the moment. We haven't even descided where it's going to be yet.

Anyways the design for the flag is perfectly obvious to me


(just ignore the animation)

:idea:  :!:  :grin:  :groupjump:

I like that.

sure i guess. what kind of project is it?

No you are right, doing gradients probably is possible today, it likely to be expensve since every different shade would require a diferent dye.

I'm working on a modification for the game Hearts of Iron II to have Autfinity as a playable country. All the ministers and military leaders and most of the tech teams are Autistic and all worked out :smile:

I like this:

Better than


But if this was to be created on fabric in general every colour costs money, as such I think we should avoid gradients and things like that, maybe a similar ish design could be created which would use say a maximum of 3 maybe at absolute peak 4 individual colours (shades of a colour = new colur (is new ink thus new colour cost wise))?[/img]

Those are the only ones that don't give me a headache from looking at them for extended periods of time (The two on this page do quite litterally I mean. I tend to get that from any bright color patterns on a computer screen though. . .).

Prefer the second myself, and can see how it could have the gradient removed fairly easily into a few-colored bars.

May submit a couple of my own.
I'd given up on trying to submit flags to things because I can't do drawings on a computer (like the eagle on Mexico's flag), can't scan the hand-drawn flags I do properly (though now it might actually work sinc eI know how to ink thinks) and nobody seems to like my symmetrical fireworks-drawn flags ones.  These though are all computer generated and largely symmetrical so I might try one here.

Edit: Oh, and a lot of flags have well over six colors, like Massachusetts, Guatemala, and Mexico, with tiny logos on the front.  So color's likely not that much of an isuue I'd guess.  Gradient would be a pain though most likely.

4 colours, count em. :grin:




BTW. i just checked this image in Paint Shop Pro and it has a total of 1483 unique colors. :shock:

I googled it; it's depressing, too.

I hope we can have a flag that's cheerful without offending people's color-tolerance.  I did wonder about this design aspect having noticed how many aspies love color/design-busy websites, designs, even rooms (you should see my office!) and how many other aspies have issues with these kinds of designs giving them a headache or dizzy or etc.

We could see it as sort of an extra design challenge, and those always produce extra creativity, no?

Meanwhile, I do intend to post a flag design sometime this week (summer break, yeah!) but I am still percolating ideas in order to get some design of my own in my head... in fact to be totally honest I have no original idea yet.  But I hope to, soon.   :?

I think it has more to do with the computer (and to a lesser extent on the Imperial Japan one the spiraly-like pattern), than the colors themselves.

I can look at pretty pictures in parrot magazines without issue, however when I see bright patterns on the intenet (like those pop-up ads), I get headaches.

I wonder: are you and the others using flat screen (LCD) or the TV-like ones (CRT?) :?:
Because i have seen where things like eye-fatigue were much more bothersome on CRT screens, for people I know.  So why not colors.

This is totally a tangent but I'm just curious.

Laptop.

So flat screen.

I find the laptop to be worse on my eyes than old computers were actually, but maybe that's just me.

Here is my attempt:



I am hoping someone could maybe tell me how to reduce the # of colors without the weird things that happen with the "posterize" feature in MS Image Manager.  Or I can send you the PNG file for you to fix it.

This is my first attempt with VECTORS and I am proud of the fact it turned out decent.

Pretty, and simple.

Depsite the bright colors, it's not headachy either.

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Here is my attempt:



I am hoping someone could maybe tell me how to reduce the # of colors without the weird things that happen with the "posterize" feature in MS Image Manager.  Or I can send you the PNG file for you to fix it.

This is my first attempt with VECTORS and I am proud of the fact it turned out decent.

Pretty, and simple.

Depsite the bright colors, it's not headachy either.

Didn't see this one before - it's quite nice. Also, I think a similar design with a black background would be very effective on a T-Shirt or a flag.