Hydra Window Manager

Recently, I had the great opportunity to participate on an Open Source project called Hydra:  https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra

The project is a new development aiming to create a programmable window environment for OSX. This allows anybody to create and define their own window behavior in a Lua configuration file.

When I came upon the project, there was no icon yet made. I was able to collaborate with a user on Github and we iterated through several designs to get to a final workable icon.  Below you'll find the iterations to our beta version.

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This was the first iteration of our design. The simplest form of a Hydra, a three headed mythical Greek beast.

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This was the second version of our design, a much more concrete representation of a hydra.

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Experimenting with different colors.

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Making the icon fit into the OSX design language by changing the shapes and lightening up the color.

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Creating a more serious, professional polished icon.

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Integrating with the design language of OSX to produce a polished, high quality icon.

To find the full thread detailing our design and development, click here:

https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra/issues/1