User:Perey

Myprimary user pageis on the English Wikipedia. I take a particular interest inconverting images to SVGand improving the quality of SVG images. I use Inkscape when doing complex drawings, but I particularly like hand-coding SVG for efficient and modular end products. In fact I really just like seeing how much I can trim down SVG file sizes by hand-coding them. (And that carries over to usingPNG optimisersto improve PNG compression too.)

Todo

• File:Quadrilateral hierarchy.png
• File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svgis so much larger than the raster version, it'sbeing used as an example of why not to mass-replace raster images with vector versionsas soon as one's available. 594KB? I couldsodo better than that.
• File:TransperthRailwayMap.svgis also needlessly large. Switching to reusable symbols for the various icons (for a start) will bring down the file size. But why did the file size jump at the last edit?...ah, it looks like all the text blocks were converted to paths.
• File:Rose-rhodonea-curve-7x9-chart.svg-- gyeargh! 2.3MB for a simple set of curves? I know it's autogenerated from PostScript, but that's no excuse. This is justhorrible.Its antecedent,File:Rose-rhodonea-curve-7x7-chart.svg,also needs fixing.
• File:Douglas crest.svgcould do with tidying up, to make it render better in rsvg, and above all to fix the spelling --Jamais arriere"Never behind", not the riotous malapropismJ'amais arriere"I loved behind"!
• File:Parabola with focus and directrix.svgand related geometric diagrams, currently created by Inkscape, could be hand-coded down to absolutely precise and tiny SVG files. It'sgeometry,after all, which is all SVG really is when you get down to it.
• File:Sun and VV Cephei A.pngis a very simple vectorisation.
• File:Invasions of the Roman Empire.svgis a rather bad vectorisation ofFile:Invasions of the Roman Empire 1.png.
• Any time I'm bored, I could always browseCategory:SVG files to be drawn by hand...

Work on non-Commons images

• w:File:Wacom_Logo_WhiteType.svg.*facepalm* This has a fairly acceptable vectorisation of the wordmark, but the logo itself is composed of embedded images (for the coloured "ends" of the "cones" ), and the silver cones themselves are even worse -- the one I examined is made up of 83 distinct elements! This needs someseriouswork.

Moving to Commons

Nothing right now.

Commons-related userboxes

VG-2

This user is able to contribute with agoodlevel onvector graphics.