Hi everyone!

I'm excited to share a cover I made for a feature story on Neils Bohr. His face is made of of the atom model that he designed. It was fun and a little tedious to create. All in all, it was a labor of love.


To read about how I created the image, go to my blog post. http://bit.ly/18lvdkH

To position all the atoms in different rotations, I used the tweak tool in Inkscape. If it wasn't for that tool, I'd probably still be rotating atoms one at a time in Illustrator. Thanks to all the people who make Inkscape possible. It's a wonderful tool.

Today is the last day that my cover is in a competition on facebook, if you could go to the link and like the image, it would ensure that something made with Inkscape won an award and I'd be forever grateful!!!!!http://on.fb.me/1lv8KLH

Please let me know if you have any questions on how I made the cover. I'd love to share.

All the best
Stephen:)

Hi.

Very Impressive!!
Your link does not work - would like to "like" this!

RGDS
Ragnar

Hello,

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Thanks Rangar. Fixed the link. It's now http://on.fb.me/1lv8KLH

I appreciate the votes. Share the link if you can:)

Very nice!

Thanks Brynn!

Well done!

I visited the blog post, and noticed in the comments about Inkscape:

Once I was done with placing all the atoms in Illustrator, I realized something—I needed to rotate the electron on the atom model. You’ll notice that the electron is at the “one-o’clock” position on all of the atoms. I needed to vary them around the orbit. Unfortunately, Illustrator doesn’t have a place to randomize rotation but fortunately, Inkscape does. If you don’t know the program, definitely check it out. I does some really wonderful things and it’s free. So using the tweak tool in Inkscape, I was able to click and drag over the shape to rotate them and make them look less random.

I wonder if it should read more random?

Cheers on the fine work,
TD

Thanks so much Tyler for the kind words. It's fixed:)

Cheers, mate.

I enjoyed SN when I was a kid, my dad had a sub for decades.

Thanks Tyler. It's a great pub to work on:)

Glad to see you`ve joined us here.

Compliments on a great work and equally nice blog. Looking forward to see more from you.

Thanks Maestral!!!