In Biology, we've set up a new server to provide radmind and a variety of other services in the new ISB. It's a Sun T5220 -- a fancy new server with a really fast processor. The tradition in the Biology Department is to name servers after fish -- and big servers are named after big marine fish. We have "marlin" and "snapper". The new backup server is named "mormyrid" (a kind of cool electric fish that is known for swimming backward -- for a "backup" server? Get it? We're geeks -- get over it). We decided to name the new server "wahoo" -- its the fastest fish in the world.
Since we named the server "wahoo", I figured we might want to have a good image of a wahoo to use for icons and graphic identity. So I looked around a bit. There are some nice images of wahoo, but the good ones were mostly not free. I found a public domain image from NOAA that might be OK, but it was too small.
So I grabbed it and ran it through the line-art tracing program in Inkscape. A few minutes later I had a scalable SVG image. I love free software.
It didn't really get the rays in the tail and anal fins right, but who cares -- it looks cool anyway. :-)
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