Does anyone recognize this symbol?
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Valkrionn
The Hamster King
Oh, I have. I just haven't paid attention to the symbols used. Hell, check the Bezeri lore... Should be reminiscent of the Slann.
Actually, it looked familiar to me and I'd never seen the Chaos star.
It doesn't have to be, specifically, a chaos star that provokes recognition. That's just a common symbol.
But, you've seen a spoked wheel, right? Maybe a wagon wheel or a ship's wheel used as a symbol? What about Conan's Wheel of Pain necklace?
It's the relationship between the easily definable parts of the symbol that makes it "recognizable" at first glance, even though we may not have seen the symbol before. If you've seen something similar, that's enough to spark the idea that "I've seen that symbol before." Four pop-sickle sticks laid out in a pattern when you were a kid could spark a similar response. We humans just LOVE patterns and remember them almost as well as we remember smells.
That's an amazing match.
This has the exact same pattern. the only differences are the colering and thr writings in the mid. but its unlikely to be copyrighted.
May I mention Michael Moorcock and The Eternal Champion series?
Using that very symbol (i.e. the star) for chaos can be seen as either a homage or an example of plagiarism... I like Warhammer but Games Workshop certainly didn't come up with this symbol, they just borrowed it and used it a lot.
Valkrionn
The Hamster King
It doesn't have to be, specifically, a chaos star that provokes recognition. That's just a common symbol.
But, you've seen a spoked wheel, right? Maybe a wagon wheel or a ship's wheel used as a symbol? What about Conan's Wheel of Pain necklace?
It's the relationship between the easily definable parts of the symbol that makes it "recognizable" at first glance, even though we may not have seen the symbol before. If you've seen something similar, that's enough to spark the idea that "I've seen that symbol before." Four pop-sickle sticks laid out in a pattern when you were a kid could spark a similar response. We humans just LOVE patterns and remember them almost as well as we remember smells.
You miss my point. I was saying it did not look like a wheel to me, or anything else involving spokes or rays emanating from a central point or any similar phrasing.
Any similarity to a wheel is vague at best; To me, it is simply knotwork. More akin to a six-pointed star, than it is to a spoked wheel (as in, it's not circular.
), which fits knotwork quite well and is used often.
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The writing is a watermark on the image, to show its source. It's not actually part of the item being shown or the symbol on it.
Kael's symbol and the one on the hairpin are mirror images of one another. The similarity is close enough that North West Treasure Trove should be contacted to research whether any copyright on that symbol exists. I agree that a copyright is unlikely, but when business is involved it is best to be certain.
Old_Lion
King
How did you find that ?
What tools and method did you use to find this needle in the internet ?
As a side-note, while the OP probably did not use them, there are some image recognition/search tools being developed out there that can, within reason, search for and find images that match certain qualities designated in the search parameters. So, if you need an image of a dog with green hills and a mountain in the background, placed in such and such a way, the goal is that such tools will allow you to search specifically for such a picture.
With something like this, with clearly defined edges and attributes, I would think that such tools (when fully developed) would be able to slog through a lot of false positives fairly quickly in order to return valid results.
Old_Lion
King
Yep, it comes up on the first page even ... of the image results.
Old_Lion
King
oki.
It was just a question of using the right set of words, then.
well done.
It was just a question of using the right set of words, then.
well done.
Deon
Lt. of Mordor
Well, that's the exact symbol (on the hairtie thing) but I didn't see it anywhere else so it should be fine. I am sure I saw similar stuff but that doesn't mean anything. And did you invent the thing the other guys had (on the posted image) or maybe did you see it somewhere and it came up in your head?
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