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hekkleyesterday at 3:40 AM3 repliesview on HN

Looks like a promising alternative to OpenSCAD.

Although am I the only one to notice the swastika in their logo?


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Karlissyesterday at 12:27 PM

If you look hard enough almost any 4 way rotation symmetry will result in a variation of swastika like shape. You would have to almost completely ban 4 way rotation symmetry to avoid it.

I personally find it unhealthy to actively search, extend and strengthen the association of hate symbols based on vague similarity out of context. Sure remember the crimes they have done and avoid the exact specific shape, proportions, color commonly used by the hate groups, but also take context into account. Don't promote them by giving them credit for things they didn't do. Don't let the hate groups win by allowing few dozen years of years of activity destroy thousands of years of cultural and language history and future for wide category of symbols and simplest geometric patterns. Don't erase words from common language. Don't let them make your life worse by self inflicted excessive censorship. Grow the good associations not the bad ones, dilute and take away the strength from hate groups instead of letting them take away common language from you. If you look at thousand year old budhist or ancient greek stone carving which uses one of the few dozen swastika variations and think those time traveling Nazis plastering their symbols all over the place they win.

When looking at children playing with paper pinwheel, is your first thought also they must be Nazi? When you look at cardboard box with 4 flaps overlapped on top of each other do you think Nazi?

With regards to other people speculation how this happened I doubt they intentionally tried to create a swastika, it just happens naturally when you use rotational symmetry. Looking at this logo I personally see the overall cross and spinning shape formed by positive space first. The image of swastika formed by negative space is kind of weak and clunky due to thickness mismatch created by curved rhombus. If they had used 4 overlapping squares or circles it would be more problematic, at that point a logo designer would likely stop and try to mixup things to get rid of it.

fainpulyesterday at 8:40 AM

If you see a swastika there, do you also see it in the Python logo?

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GaryBlutoyesterday at 4:40 AM

> Although am I the only one to notice the swastika in their logo?

Possibly. Although I know it's the wrong way round to be a Nazi swastika, it's made all the more odd by the fact that this is a German project.

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