In the whole Universe — only one cloud icon

One of the well known Microsoft developers ADJ Hanselman (Hanselman Scorr) has published message, which is justified regarding the image of the cloud on ASP.NET.



He said that after change of design ASP.NET received a lot of emails with jokes "nice iCloud icon". Like, looks very similar to the icon Apple iCloud.




But about any plagiarism here could not be and speeches, says ADJ. First, Microsoft has proof that they bought this icon from the collection Pictos in March, 2010.

Here is the original from there:



Secondly, it is found in the images, published under Creative Commons license.



And in dozens of third-party programs.



Well, and thirdly, Apple fans explain why the icon is so beautiful, praising the designers of "Apple" company. The fact that the combination of circles in it that conforms to the the Golden section.



Here tutorial how to draw a iCloud icon in Photoshop.

The Golden section φ = (1+√5)/2 all around us in nature as shown in this video.



Moreover, even a child who knows nothing about patent law, if asked to draw cloud, draw roughly the same picture, with a flat bottom and four semicircles, says ADJ. So what about any plagiarism may not be considered. Apparently, in the Universe there is indeed only one way to draw the icon of the cloud.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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