hi there,
This is a System Monitor based design which i made using Inkscape & Conky.
The UI design is only one way as usual in conky. However, the design basically reflects my curiosity towards polygonization of surfaces. Particularly the mesh generation, voronoi & delaunay patterns used in spatial analysis & statistics have inspired me in a geometric and artistic sense.
I am also interested in learning how the reporters (hardware sensors + programmed functions) that monitor vital system status. Particularly learned something around Lua & C. Really appreciable stuff.
Take a look at the design... I know it is tooooo colory... now i have a completely different desktop in my GNU box... :D
With such curiosity, and knowing very little about the above stuff, i somehow managed to make the conky system monitor work in my screen. Much of the web is mostly filled with some popular designs for Conky.
@ /.\ ----+-------------------------------------------------+/ \ | Dude, common ? What is fucking great about it ? | +-------------------------------------------------+
It is very great that using free software like Conky, its derived designs are rapidly copied and redistributed with little bit of customization a user immediately wants to enjoy it. But it is also its very nature is to easily customize its operation, look, feel that brings the individuality in oneself. I consider that as a great value for liberty, helps gain confidence on one's own hacking, brings courage to write some program. The individual becomes their own critical reviewer... because it brings a personal touch and help get started with introspection.
:)
Searched for immediate availability of polygon generation - none is good, moreover, not available as free/open tool. Somehow pattern generation plugin in Inkscape is not much helpful for me - to suit my train of thoughts while designing it.. how ever it is good at generating : polygons...).
I must thank :
Aaron Nieze for his simple and nice tutorial on Polygon Art. I have learned much from his tutorial collection... :D
@ /.\ ----+-----------------------------------------------+/ \ | hmmmmh... Whatever! by the way who uses these | | stuff nowadays, probably nerds like you ??? | +-----------------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------------------+----( me ) | Its pretty inspiring for me, & furthermore, its | | kickass, and never crashed once till i used it. | | Furthermore, it never spied me to some shitty | | service out there... | +--------------------------------------------------+
Now, how did i draw that stuff in Inkscape ???
All small polygons that you are seeing in the bar, are hand drawn during my procrastination. Learned how to draw a set of polygons for filling the space, and definetly a machine when programmed or taught to do that function is always wise. Remember Inkscape has inbuilt functions to do that !
Instead of me going through all the stages of drawing an illustration in inkscape and filling up this page, feel free to download from the link provided below and learn.
