Dan Harkless' "Expand" Icon

Jet Jaguar programming himself to grow

Date:  January 27, 1996
 
Tool:   Thaumaturge Icon Editor 1.0 on an Apple Macintosh Centris 610 running Mac OS 7.1
 
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I have Aladdin Systems' StuffIt Expander on my Mac desktop, but the name is too long and I didn't like the icon. Therefore, I drew this icon and renamed the program "Expand". The picture depicts a scene in the bad-movie classic Godzilla vs. Megalon. In the film, a scientist creates a human-sized robot named "Jet Jaguar". The robot needs to fight the giant monster Megalon, so he conveniently grows to 500 times his original size. While looking on in amazement, the scientist muses, "It can't be! But still... I guess he realized he had to hold the monster somehow. So he just programmed himself in some way to increase his own size!".

This icon would look a bit nicer at 34x34, so that the robot's extremities could all be surrounded by the black outline, but icons are 32x32 on the Mac.

Note that if you're looking at this page on a PC rather than a Mac, the icon will look darker than it's supposed to due to the gamma curve difference between the two platforms.



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