Need ideas for an icon

After a request by Arend I added an unflatten component for reversing a flattening operation. If you still have the original tree and the number of items hasn't changed it can be put back together:

However I just cannot come up with a good idea for an icon for Unflatten. The best I could come up with was an acorn, which is a tenuous link at best.

Any ideas welcome, but please remember that the icon must de drawable and recognizable in a 20x20 (24x24 in an emergency) pixel image.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Tudor Cosmatu on March 18, 2013 at 4:20pm

But then again, wasn't this discussion actually about an icon ?! :);)

Permalink Reply by Jesus Galvez on March 20, 2013 at 12:52pm

Supposing the "flatten" name gets a name overhaul how about "Retread" for the unflatten command? Otherwise if the flatten name stays I think the retread name is confusing and the unflatten name is the most straightforward.

I agree, I like the:

icon best. But I like it with grass... :D

BTW, nice jokes everyone!

Permalink Reply by Ante Ljubas on March 18, 2013 at 4:59pm

A bifurcated trunk would do if you imagined one being "flattened" a longer time ago. So, this would suggest a fully developed second tree as a part of the same branched trunk, not just branching out to become fully developed, time later:
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Permalink Reply by Ante Ljubas on March 18, 2013 at 5:25pm

Another idea could be an owl nesting in a hollow tree but this is probably a little harder to depict as an icon. http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/screech_owl.jpg

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on March 18, 2013 at 5:49pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2NS7Gk...

Permalink Reply by Daniel Gebreiter on March 19, 2013 at 3:55am

Lovely discussion! I haven't got any tools to draw nice icons, but here's another idea in case there's no clear winner yet (tough I quite like the stump and little twig from earlier):

flatten turns the tree into a plank- um, well, it's flat! ;-)

"unflatten" then reconstructs a tree-shape from a set of planks!

flatten:

unflatten:

Permalink Reply by Alex on March 20, 2013 at 11:41am

maybe this solution will suit :)

Permalink Reply by Diego on March 3, 2016 at 1:40pm

I know this is an old, closed discussion, and no one will ever read it... but! we are still on time.

Can we change the current unflatten tree by a zombie-tree please (it was dead and now is back)? or a trunk disguised as a tree (hard too imagine but worth it)?

Only for the sake of humor!

PD. SMASH command icon best icon ever.