Stop & Post May 2007

**Frank Edwards** · 05 May 2007, 12:18 PM

Hi Egg.

Many thanks. You're spot on.

The bearings act as helicopter main routes (HMR). The ones you see arrowed in the jpg are inbound (to Aberdeen). They are interlaced with the outbound HMRs (more visible on the .xar file). So the separation is 3 degrees between out and inbound routes. Not sure why 3 was the amount chosen - that was decided a long time ago. Probably they took a proper aeronautical chart and played around with a protractor and a ruler until they came up with a "spacing" that looked workable.

Hope you got to sleep eventually ;-)

Great variety of styles and subjects this month.

Frank

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 May 2007, 02:33 PM

Thanks Frank,

My first thoughts were why arent they done in 5 degree units, but of course this would put the return routes as half a degree and a bit messy.

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 May 2007, 06:05 AM

Buttons seem to be in favour at the moment. Up and over state for an email button. Part XXPro and part Xara3D.

**gnurf** · 07 May 2007, 01:17 PM

My latest clip art images, handdrawn, scanned, and then traced and colorized in Xtreme Pro (all vector).

Feel free to download and use, you find them at http://www.gnurf.net/clipart

**handrawn** · 07 May 2007, 01:51 PM

Great clip art Paul
Good of you to provide it from source - always nice to see how its done by an expert

**parahandy** · 07 May 2007, 01:55 PM

well done Paul thank you for sharing, your work is a delight to the eyes

**gnurf** · 08 May 2007, 09:28 AM

OK, here's a cartoon of mine I am currently colorizing

**Egg Bramhill** · 09 May 2007, 03:47 AM

This is an old drawing I did a few years back. I thought I'd revisit it and add some figures which weren't on the original. I've added the soldiers and the dog. Quite pleased with the additions.

**iamtheblues** · 10 May 2007, 11:31 AM

Fabulous clipart!
Possibly showing my age here, but your cartoon work is very reminiscent of The Katzenjammer Kids created by Rudolph Dirks, although I don't go back as far as their debut in 1897!
Really enjoy your work.
Saludos, Bob

**iamtheblues** · 10 May 2007, 11:50 AM

Not much Xara in this, but I was working through the tips in the latest Xara Outsider on cropping bitmaps. I added a feather to the ellipse and a blend and drop shadow to the text, and matched the background to that of the forum.
Hope I don't offend any sensitive souls with this shot of our "flashing" cat!
Saludos, Bob