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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 22 10:33 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:50 AM:

I made some slight tweaks to the images today. While you might use Inkscape, I'm editing these in a text editor like I would HTML or CSS. Last night I was looking at them in a browser without any visual reference for the boundaries of the image. But today I placed each image in a colored square box in an HTML page to see how each image fits into the borders of a square. What I found out was that the SVGs were all being clipped. So I adjusted the position to be centered in the box, and I moved the width scaling from the main image to the individual ox and ram images. I also stretched them a bit wider and dropped the ram down a little bit, which put their baselines and tops of their heads at the same level.

If the left/right part would be perceived as specifying a temporal order the one with the Ram facing right is the correct one, as the piece first 'pulls' (= Withdrawer-captures) a 'you' (= enemy piece), and then 'pushes' (= Advancer-captures) another 'you' out of existence. So if there is anything inconsistent, it is in the name, and not in the image.

I was thinking more of the linguistic order. I'm not interested in changing the name except to follow the original spelling, which is pushmi-pullyu.

Since the ox looks like a bull, the ram-ox order also signifies the time of year when Hans, myself, and David all have our birthdays.

I have updated the Alfaerie for Rococo set to use PNG pieces with the ram/ox pieces for the Pushmi-Pullyu.


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