Tux on top throne

© Sampo Niskanen 1998

Story behing the picture...

Once upon a time (in 1998) I was taking a little stroll and felt myself to be in the mood of (trying to) making some nice picture. Slowly an image started forming in my head and suddenly I realized that somewhere, maybe not in this galaxy, maybe not even on this plane of existance, but somewhere there must be a penguin sitting on a golden throne as ruler.

I got home and started forming the image into the computer. As you might have expected, I made the throne and texts with POV-Ray and then added the penguin and background with The GIMP. Well, it's perhaps not perfect, but it's the best I could do at the time.

Related links:

• Download the jpeg (50kb)
• Download a higher-quality version as png (300kb)
• Linux
• POV-Ray
• The GIMP
• And all three totally free.
• GNU - Gnu's Not Unix!
• Larry Ewing, original creator of the Linux penguin
• And, of course, ME. My homepage and email <sampo.niskanen@removethis.iki.fi>