The connection to the Java logo I think is a good idea.
The last thing the serpent’s victims hear is whispered hiss of the word ‘xith’
Here is one from dalow:
http://www.famelan.de/download/dalow/xith.jpg
It’s a temporary result of a conceptual discussion over at the [url=http://www.tattered.de]tattered minds board/url. I thought it would be a good idea to start a spin-off thread in a artist-board 
I guess there will be other drafts soon.
Thx Jen
Well I tried to do something which looks like Orangy Tang icon (the snake part). The tree is for the scenegraph.
It is to big to be a button and probably to big for a banner but what I tried was to get a basis of what we want.
I didn’t know where to implement the “Xith3D” so I put it on the leaf of the tree but it doesn’t seem so good.
It’s just a draft so comments/ideas are welcome 
DZ
Looks good
A large image such as that is what we need for xith.org - and I’m sure you could work another smaller image with the snake.
An invertable grayscale, transparent image I think is needed too (for use along side the OpenGL and Java coffee cup ones).
Will.
By Tom:
http://www.famelan.de/download/qube/xith3d.jpg
psd:http://www.famelan.de/download/qube/xith3d.psd
By DesmofheN:
http://www.desmofhen.de/pq/3d.jpg
hm, looks a bit like the result of a ‘create-button’-plugin for photoshop or gimp
[quote]hm, looks a bit like the result of a ‘create-button’-plugin for photoshop or gimp
[/quote]
haha ;D
(that wasn’t me)
?? German ??
Wheres that from?
[quote]?? German ??
Wheres that from?
[/quote]
From the right-now-not-that-active-cuz-there-was-a-relaunch tattered minds board (tattered.de).
Started a spinoff thread there
The last 3 images, I’d posted, are from that thread… maybe we get some more entries :>
By Brainpulse:
Now that one I really like. The boxes almost imply a kinda hiearchial tree structure and could be used alone as the Xith “tag”.
Not quite sure on the colors… but that really is mint.
Kev
I dunno - I see that same kind of “box” design everywhere thesedays. I reakon a mascot is what we need - like the snake. One that can look professional and slick but has character.
Will.
I like the snake too. The logo is simple and elegant, not too detailed and cluttered. And a mascot would be cool. If Linux can have Tux the penguin Xith 3D can have Jake the Snake… or Sammy Serpent, or Xithy, or maybe we can call it a Viper… “Xith Viper” sounds cool.
You realize if Xith gets a mascot then we have to do this all over again to name it
How soon until we start a poll?
In that case I think we need to open a little longer, a get Onyx to specify a snake to the arty types over on the other board.
I think its a good idea to get some external (outside of the 3D programming world) ideas.
Kev
[quote]In that case I think we need to open a little longer
[/quote]
Agree.
Yuri
Here are six examples designed by Katya Golub, JProof:
Variant 1:
http://int.jproof.com/xith3dlogo/1.gif
Variant 2:
http://int.jproof.com/xith3dlogo/2.gif
Variant 3:
http://int.jproof.com/xith3dlogo/3.gif
Variant 4:
http://int.jproof.com/xith3dlogo/4.gif
Variant 5:
http://int.jproof.com/xith3dlogo/5.gif
Variant 6:
http://int.jproof.com/xith3dlogo/6.gif
Could be that other versions will follow, also from other JProof designers.
Yuri