Image:Star of life2.svg

[edit] Description

Star of life, blue version.

Represents the Rod of Asclepius, with a snake around it, on a 6-branch star shaped as the cross of 3 thick 3:1 rectangles.

[edit] Design

The logo is basically unicolor, most often a slate or medium blue, but this design uses a slightly lighter shade of blue for the outer outline of the cross, and the outlines of the rod and of the snake. The background is transparent (but the star includes a small inner plain white outline). This makes this image usable and visible on any background, including blue. The light shade of color for the outlines makes the form more visible at smaller resolutions, so that the image can easily be used as an icon.

This SVG file was manually created to specify alignments, to use only integers at the core 192x192 size, to get smooth curves on connection points (without any angle), to make a perfect logo centered in a exact square, to use a more precise geometry for the star and to use slate blue color with slightly lighter outlines on the cross, the rod and snake.

Finally, the SVG file is clean and contains no unnecessary XML elements or attributes, CSS styles or transforms that are usually added silently by common SVG editors (like Sodipodi or Inkscape) and that just pollute the final document, so it just needs the core SVG elements for the rendering. This is why its file size is so small.

[edit] Copyright

(c) 2006 Philippe Verdy, France. (this attribution author notice is required by french law, my country, and designates the XML/SVG work, not the logo design itself).

The logo displayed by this image was completely manually recreated by me (fr:Utilisateur:verdy_p) based on a Public domain US federal work. This new version remains in public domain like the original logo (and can then be reused in GFDL or GPL or Creative Commons works, as well as commercial applications, with or without this additional attribution.)

[edit] Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright. Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. العربية | Česky | Deutsch | Español | Italiano | 日本語 | Magyar | Français | Português | 简体中文 | 正體中文 | +/-