Fail:始皇帝 (篆文).svg

Originaline fail ‎(SVG-fail, nominaližikš 350 × 1000 piksel'ad, failan suruz': 14 kb)

Nece fail om Wikimedia Commons da sidä voib kävutada toižiš projektoiš. Tedod siš failan kirjutesen lehtpol' kacu alemba.

Lühüd kirjutuz

Kirjutuz

English: This is a vector version (created in Inkscape) of a very low-quality JPEG found at w:Image:ShiHuangDi1.jpg (which in turn must have been scanned from some book).
The image shows the name of the first emperor of a unified China, written in Seal Script. It says

始皇帝

Shǐ Huángdì, literally meaning "First Emperor". See w:Qin Shi Huang.

Comments on version history

The original version we uploaded was hand-traced in Inkscape. I deleted it.
Next, there was a version that we manually corrected in accordance with some suggestions that were made, in order to make it more accurate. Some lines were made thinner.
Next, there was a version that we created in CorelTRACE using the "centreline" tool. In Inkscape, we corrected a couple of problems and increased the line thickness from hairline to 2mm. It is very accurate, but does not take into account differing line thicknesses. But is line thickness significant in seal script? Not very, I think.
Finally, there was a version that we created in CorelTRACE using the "outline" tool. This image was good, but had many erroneous wedge shapes, so we corrected this in Inkscape. This is probably the best version.
Tweaked that last version by moving the characters closer together and adding a margin to the left and right.
Abandoned everything and went back to the original bitmap. Used "trace bitmap" in Inkscape (which works as well as CorelTRACE if you make sure the image is totally black first).

Annotations

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Augotižtekst

Ičeze rad

Tegii

Erin Silversmith (pagin · tehtud radod) (original), Wargaz (pagin · tehtud radod) (current version)

Licenzii

Public domain

This SVG representation of an ancient script is in the public domain.

The script itself predates the modern concept of copyright, and the creator of this image has released (or hereby releases) into the public domain any copyright generated by the making of the file (and grants an unconditional license to anyone, for any jurisdictions in which public-domain release is not legal). This applies internationally and for any purpose.

Attribution is not required but appreciated.

Example: the Chinese character 龍/龙 in seal script

Failan istorii

Paina päiväle/aigale, miše nägištada, mitte fail oli sil aigal.

	Päiv/Aig	Suruded	Kävutai	Kirjutez
nügüdläine	11. Uhoku 2018, kell 11:38	350 × 1000 (14 kb)	Wargaz	more representative
	10. Heinku 2006, kell 05:21	477 × 1000 (11 kb)	Erin Silversmith	Correct transparency issue.
	9. Heinku 2006, kell 04:45	309 × 664 (11 kb)	Erin Silversmith	Moved chars closer together. Increased horizontal margin.
	7. Heinku 2006, kell 14:38	350 × 950 (10 kb)	Erin Silversmith	This version was created with CorelTRACE's "outline" tool, and with many corrections then being manually performed in Inkscape.
	7. Heinku 2006, kell 13:51	350 × 950 (12 kb)	Erin Silversmith	New version done with CorelTRACE's "centreline" tool.
	7. Heinku 2006, kell 08:53	350 × 950 (18 kb)	Erin Silversmith	New version as per Hardouin's suggestions. More accurate. Black in colour. Also, metadata is now embedded.