Art

From OLPC

this page is about the subject. For the OLPC community, see Community:Art

[edit] Projects

There are art Activities for the XO, such as Paint, Colors!, and Cartoon Builder.

[edit] Images and photography

There are some good tutorials in ohw to frame, crop, and lay out new images.

There are also good public repositories of images to work with; better than the old clipart-collection standbys.

• 4 Free Photos Over 3000 free images.
• Alegri Free Photos Collection of free Creative Commons images.
• Public Domain Images Several thousand copyright friendly images nicely organized in folders, free for personal or commercial use.
• public domain photos (a few thousand)
• open clip art
• Flickr (2 Million cc-by and cc-by-sa photos)
  • A Flickr collection of photos of kids, offered by the artist for use in games.

[edit] Texts

• Smarthistory has developed a very nice (award winning) on-line Art History web-text (CC-NC-SA 3.0 licensing). It would be very interesting to develop this as a content bundle for the XO.

[edit] Design

For design of everyday things, including blueprints and other designs, one could use something like graph paper or a CAD program. The American Institute of Architects is interested in helping get some sort of design software to work on the XO, but doesn't have a lot of devs of their own. They are looking for someone to work with them for a while on such outreach efforts.