On the other hand, I am a pretentious git, so there.
Anyway, occasionally I have come up with arms that somehow amuse me, mostly of the ‘horrible pun’ or ‘obvious literary allusion’ variety. So here are a couple. (Images are provided courtesy of Mark E. Shoulson's pyBlazon.)
Ermine of gules and Or, a chief dancetty vert.This one's interesting because it may or may not violate the Rule of Tincture. In the SCA, the field would usually be blazoned gules ermined Or, and would apparently be not be considered a fur, but rather equivalent to gules, semy of ermine-spots Or; even ermine itself is considered argent, semy of ermine-spots sable for RoT purposes. Outside the SCA, apparently, anything other than ermine, ermines, erminois, and pean are very, very rare, although Woodward (1896) does actually list a Van Leefvelt as bearing gules, semé of ermine-spots Or (no other charges), and Gough and Parker (1894) name a Deobody as having Or, a cross gules, semée of ermine spots argent. Both also cite some cases of ermine being used with metals, so a quasi-ermine used with a color is, perhaps, not beyond the pale; and the arms of Flower of Sussex (bottom of this page — ermine on erminois) or Davis (beginning Per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant reguardant erminois...) are interesting as well.
The fact that it was actually rendered as sanguine ermined Or is probably not relevant.
Gyronny of 2048 argent and azure, a roundel gyronny of 1024 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 512 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 256 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 128 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 64 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 32 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 16 argent and azure charged with a roundel gyronny of 8 argent and azure.
Loosely inspired, in retrospect, by a particular Evil Blazon, although I originally got here trying to simulate orange with a high-density gyronny of gules and Or. (It doesn't work; the rasterization still leaves dots of the individual colors.) The appropriate motto to go with these arms would be, I suppose, "For its own sake." No herald in the world would accept it; no artist save a computer would draw it.
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Hey, always nice to see someone using my project!
You could have (and probably did) use Gules ermined or..., but I guess you didn't like the shade of red that gave you (spectral red, basically #ff0000). I suppose someone really concerned could always tweak the SVG or the PNG output to adjust the colors.
Similarly, if you wanted orange, you can just call for tenne, which is fairly orangeish.
I'm a little surprised (but pleased) that pyBlazon (and the SVG renderer) didn't totally barf on that particularly nasty blazon you tried on it. Maybe extremely fine bendy or checky might be another way to try making “dithered” colors.
The “Rule of Tincture” is made much of in groups like the SCA, but in point of fact even in period heraldry it was only casually observed. Most arms were very simple and didn't violate it, it is true, but there were quite a few classic arms which did (the most famous probably being the arms of Crusader-ruled Jerusalem, which were Argent a cross of Jerusalem or or something like that).
Us pretentious gits have to stick together!
- Indeed — sanguine seemed to make a tastier strawberry. Similarly, tenne is too brown for my purposes; I wanted a nice vivid orange.
- Ooooh. Didn't think of that. Yes, reasonably fine bendy, bendy sinister, and lozengy work nicely; barry and checky leave a distortion at the base, though, and neither barry nor paly ever become unmoiréd anywhere. Barry wavy makes the server cry, and I apologize for that one.
- If the various named colors are considered points in RGB vector space, the set of colors that can be achieved via dithering are exactly those which lie within the convex hull of those points. I thus cannot in any way make #FF00FF. (On the other hand, this is probably a feature.) Still, have you considered adding #1A2B3C notation for colors, so that strange people can make artistic choices about what flavor of gules they want their strawberries to be?
- Basically yes, but it's more fun to argue that I'm not breaking it than to admit that I am.
- ^_^
Not sure I see what you're saying about #ff00ff; if I dither together "red" and "blue" (i.e. #ff0000 and #0000ff), does that not yield something magenta-ish? Oh, I see, that's too dark, that's what you meant by the convex hull, since things add up like in pigments, by subtraction, and not by addition like light (even that doesn't work, since or+azure doesn't make vert).
Yeah, so yesterday I *did* add the feature of specifying a color with #ABCDEF notation. I haven't added it to the server yet, but it's in the code in the repository. I think I had it in mind for ages, and finally broke down and did it.
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