Image via Wikipedia
Article No. 200!
You may have noticed a change to the website home page, the header image has been completely updated. This was something I put off for far too long, and I am glad to have changed it.
I am in no way a graphics designer, and I put the image together using various other images — all from www.openclipart.org. OpenClipArt is a resource that provides completely 100% free images (mainly svg vector graphics images) for use in any way you want to use them. The professional quality of images varies quite a bit from image to image, but it is not hard to find images that may suit your needs — whether it be for a business, organization, or a simple poster.
Vector Graphics certainly make this a special website because of how “cool” these graphics can be. Vector graphics van be zoomed in as much as you want as true vector graphics never get blurry. They are stored as (and this is an oversimplification) math on a grid, indicating where each line or shape is and what color it is, ect. As Wikipedia puts it:
“Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.”
Take for example, this image. Use your browsers zoom feature (usually CTRL + +) and zoom in all the way, then start looking at the small details that the graphics arts added. Notice how it is not blurry?
I must also give credit to a computer program that can easily create and edit SVG image files, Inkscape. A wonderful program dedicated to the creation of vector graphics. (SVG: Filetype. Scalable Vector Graphics.)
All images from OpenClipArt are in the public domain with no copyright (unless specifically noted). This means you can copy the work, redistribute it, and modify it for personal and commercial uses without permission.
