"Ink," the origin and meaning of his tattoos...

[cupcakezombie]

KC has posted a new pic of TOWTM here: http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...6511#post56511
So thought I should bump this thread up.

[Red Shirt]

KC has posted a new pic of TOWTM here: http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...6511#post56511
So thought I should bump this thread up.

Aw damn. I'm a week late to this, but I think my head just asploded. I don't even know where to start.

Can't start now... but thanks for the bump.

[Red Shirt]

Sorry for the gratuitous bump, but* I have a question to ask of the community... I'm looking for a simple and free/open-source art/drawing program that has layering like PS does. It can be as simple as MSpaint, (prefer it actually) as long as it has a layering tool.

I'm brainstorming about this image and I'm about to get serious about investigating and posting my findings. I think it is high time I did... It's been posted for something like six months now.

"Over scienceing" something has been mentioned before... Although I don't disagree, I can't help it. I am a scientist... I may not be what is referred to as "classically trained," but I am nonetheless. I see a puzzle, a mystery, one that might be able to work out for myself and I want to tackle it. It's FUN. It's also something as it turns out, might actually shed some light on the subject at hand.

What I really need is an oooooold library, like the ones I had growing up in the north east. The creepy kind with a national historic marker out front for "Secret Meeting Site for so and so" and the funny smelling basement.

Having moved "home" to New England, I now have access to those kinds of libraries again.


As a parting shot for the evening of some of my preliminary findings:

This:
towtm working copy1.jpg
Appears to be a Hydrogenated Isomer of the Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon Anthracene. It is derived from coal tar, used to produce red dye and it is an organic semi-conductor.

This:
towtm working copy3.jpg
Appears to be the amino acid Proline.

Proline is an α-amino acid, one of the twenty DNA-encoded amino acids.
Proline and its derivatives are often used as asymmetric catalysts in organic reactions.

Can anyone here read/translate (what I think is) Kanji?
towtm working copy2.jpg


*Not so gratuitous after all. Turns out I had more to say than I realized.

[LiamKerrington]

Hey there,

@Red Shirt:
The second picture you have linked reminds me of a simplified pictogram used to display viruses; but I don't say that this is the meaning in this context.

About your request:

I don'T know for sure, but you might want to look at the programm GIMP. It is open source or at least available for free; and it is available for a variety of different operating systems. I use it to modify my avatars I use on different internet forums, and sometimes for more serious sh*t. But I haven't got into it deeply. What I often here is that it is supposed to be comparable with Photshop. So maybe you want to look at it and try it.
But I warn you: One time I tried to use Photoshop while being used to GIMP; and both programs work very different; so you have to put some effort into GIMP in order to grab its concepts and understand the linking between its functions and features:
www.gimp.org

Best wishes!
Liam

[Kc]

[s]


Can anyone here read/translate (what I think is) Kanji?
towtm working copy2.jpg


*Not so gratuitous after all. Turns out I had more to say than I realized.

This might help slightly...

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[Witch_Doctor]

This might help slightly...

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Ooo Nice! A Rosetta Stone.

From left to right, top to bottom.

?, Rune("Algiz", 'z' sound), Eye of Horus, ?, Pentagram, ?(Battlestar Galactica's Eye of Jupiter? - nahhh)

[Malador]

The first symbol of the kanji means child.

It actually means a mother protecting its child.

[Malador]

保护 means bǎo hù, which has numerous meanings, but they relate to protection in one way or another. Conservation, Patronage, Shelter and ward are a few of the meanings.

[scbubba]

Did some investigation over lunch using the Chinese hanzi characters instead of kanji.
Looks like these characters: 保护
I think these translate to (respectively):

保 - protect, safeguard, defend, care

护 - protect, guard, defend, shelter

Here's my source info:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindic...qchi=%E4%BF%9D
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindic...qchi=%E6%8A%A4

Edit: looks like I was a little late and Malador beat me to it....

[Witch_Doctor]

保护 means bǎo hù, which has numerous meanings, but they relate to protection in one way or another. Conservation, Patronage, Shelter and ward are a few of the meanings.

Did some investigation over lunch using the Chinese hanzi characters instead of kanji.
Looks like these characters: 保护
I think these translate to (respectively):

保 - protect, safeguard, defend, care

护 - protect, guard, defend, shelter

Here's my source info:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindic...qchi=%E4%BF%9D
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindic...qchi=%E6%8A%A4

Edit: looks like I was a little late and Malador beat me to it....

How the heck are y'all typing those characters?