Technology: Assisted transformation of heraldic images. Associated heraldry domains. Automation of the diffusion

Assisted transformation of heraldic images

Heraldic art in a Nokia Lumia 920, flexible design

When the style pages of Blason.es were modified to have a more adaptable and fluid design, this transformation had implications for the images of the coats of arms and those of other heraldic objects shown on this website, which changed from referencing certain display sizes in relation to their height, to being defined in terms of proportions, in relation to the width measurements, between those of the heraldic objects and those of their container blocks.

The builder program, which is referenced in the article titled automation of the diffusion of heraldic content, performed the transformation of most of the images to adapt them to its requirements and display locations.

To do this, the builder program read the large format digital images coming from vector graphics, the spaces within the pages where they had to be inserted, and, after checking that no resolution was lost, generated the image for that space and controls the updates of the coat of arms images, so that, if a new original version is generated, it updates the image displayed on this website, performing, again, the appropriate transformations.

Category: Technology.

External resource:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/.

Associated heraldry domains

On the heraldic content and the rules

List of heraldic domains associated with Blason.es which may have a similar content and who share the same legal disclaimer and privacy policy of Blason.es.

Sites about heraldry

Automation of the diffusion of heraldic content

2015

The creation of this website is carried out by a builder program developed specifically for Blason.es.

The content that this builder program uses as raw material consists of articles grouped, by armorial owners or by themes, within objects called agendas.

Each agenda can have from 1 or 2 articles up to dozens of them.

An article is often associated with a specific version of a coat of arms, with a bibliographic reference, with a criterion, etc.

Each of the articles stored in the agendas can belong to a wide set of categories.

Of the more than 550 possible categories, approximately 85% can be associated with heraldic and artistic terms or categories.

The articles can also belong to 5 levels that are named, according to the first letters of the alphabet: (A)nnulled, (B)ilingual, (C)astilian and common, (D)istinguished, (E)shelfed, and (F)rontal.

The dozens of agendas containing the Blason.es articles are organized, in turn, in a large tree structure where each node maintains an agenda, the coats of arms, flags, standards, seals, exlibris, etc. described in the articles of that agenda or of other related agendas, the construction method of these coats of arms along with auxiliary notes, hand-drawn tracings of assemblies or components, the diagrams, their pixel images and their representation in vector graphics, their support documentation, their catalogs of heraldic pieces, etc. This tree structure supports and organizes several Gigabytes of heraldic content (about 125 Gb and increasing).

This tree structure was not created to be exploited by the Blason.es builder program, but precedes the existence of this program.

It is, precisely, the same tree structure that supports the development of my heraldic art which, simultaneously, is used by the Blason.es builder program to extract from it the textual, graphic, etc. content that illustrates this website.

Technically, the Blason.es builder program could be classified within the area of metaprogramming and includes, additionally, certain features that try to move it away from determinism, with the objective that the same input information does not always generate identical web content output.

2025

Since the previous paragraphs were written, the fundamentals have not changed, but there has been an evolution.

The raw material feeding my Blason.es website is a 165 GB repository made up of 87,234 files, fundamentally images (raster and vector) created by me, organized in 5,063 cloud directories.

With the best material from that repository, a bilingual documentation base of posts is maintained, which is independent of the posts' final destination, and which currently contains 3,155 posts (titles, set of possible images, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, although also some French, Italian, and other languages, keywords, and control of the sites where they have been published). This documentation base is the source for publishing on the following channels, social networks, and groups within them: Facebook, Minds, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, BlueSky, Twitter, Pixiv, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Discord, and Patreon and, of course, for the Blason.es website. This allows maintaining a publication volume of 3,224 posts per year (average of the last 5 years).

Specifically, publication on Blason.es is carried out in 2 phases:

First, thanks to a process programmed in Python which, based on a publication selector, extracts the posts to be published from the document bank with the most suitable images and generates an XML-like structure with said content, including both HTML code and TOL code (a programming language designed by me). That is, it generates a structure like the one described in the previous section, and structure, which was initially edited manually.
Subsequently, a process programmed in TOL, similar to the one described in the previous section, reads all the XML structure necessary to update Blason.es every night on a server with the Fedora operating system, an operation that is transmitted to the internet early in the morning.

Through the above, Blason.es currently consists of 5,616 HTML pages, 5,282 files in JPEG format, 669 files in PNG format, in addition to MP4 and PDF files.

The pages of Blason.es are organized through a heraldic ontology consisting of 934 keywords in heraldic Castilian and 913 in English heraldic terminology, establishing a network of internal and external hyperlinks that reaches 1,436,823.

Category: Technology.

Discord

My heraldic Discord wall is The Discord Roll of Arms # Antonio.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, Party per pale, Vert, One, Compass rose, Argent, Between, In chief, Ancient coronet, Crown, In base, Sun in splendour, Or, Sable, Overall (line of division), Spear, Shafted, Helm, Mantling, Doubled, Wreath, Lynx, Couchant, Proper, Langued, Azure, Motto and Giclée.

Edmund Leighton, 1901, The Accolade

I swear by the 1^st rule of heraldry I will never emblazon again an eagle Sable on a field Gules.

The heraldic rule of tinctures: «a colour cannot go on top of another colour and a metal cannot go on top of another metal».

This coat of arms is similar to the arms of Henry VI the Good, Prince of Silesia and Duque of Wroclaw, blazon: «Gules, an eagel displayed Sable».

If it was Edmund Leighton's intention to paint Henry VI, then the justification would be that Silesia is located in Poland and in the Polish heraldic tradition, the sable is considered a neutral tincture, that is neither color nor metal, so they can put the sable on the color gules. But I doubt that the Prince of Silesia and Duke of Wroclaw would have needed to be knighted.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, Colour on colour, Eagle, Sable and Gules.

Facebook, 26,000 likes, about 1,445 likes the month

Categories: Technology and Social networks.

Root: Facebook.

Flexible design of heraldic art pages

Heraldic art in a Google Nexus 7, flexible design

At the end of May 2015, I evolved the Css (Cascade style sheet) style pages of this Blason.es website to move from a fixed design to a more flexible and adaptable design.

To ensure that this transformation was not particularly costly, and could be done in a few days, flexibility was limited to 2 ranges of the graphic device width, which is usually called a single breakpoint.

These 2 ranges were primarily set in relation to the content of this site and not so much in relation to the possible desktop equipment or mobile devices on which the content could be viewed.

Within each of these 2 ranges, all adaptation is reduced to linear changes in widths.

In the transition from one range to the other, there is only the disappearance of the outer margins and the adaptation of the size of the initial capital letters and titles.

All this is to avoid overloading the style page code excessively and to keep it as clear and explanatory as possible.

Subsequent to the transformation of the web design from fixed to adaptable, some minor changes have been made, such as, for example, the inclusion of a large capital letter at the beginning of each page with articles.

Category: Technology.

External link:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/.

Google Plus

I also had a heraldic wall in Google+ the social network created and closed by Google. Google + taught us that we should not put all our efforts into a single social network.

Tres torres ordenadas de oro, imagen para Google +

Categories: Technology, Social networks, Tower, Ordered, Or, Port and windows and Azure.

Heraldic art in FireFox, Chrome, IE and Safari

Heraldic art in Internet Explorer, fixed design

The development of this Blason.es website is mainly tested in Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome and, also, in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari.

But while it is sought that the visualization of the design in the first 2 is as it was conceived, in the latter 2, it is only required to be acceptably correct.

Therefore, the pages are not overloaded with additional code to achieve optimal visualization neither in Microsoft Internet Explorer nor Apple Safari.

For example, the image illustrating this article shows the appearance of this site, around March 2015, in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, where the rounded corners of the white content background do not appear, which are visible in Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome.

It's not that they cannot be displayed, it's that the development overhead is relinquished to achieve total adequacy, as the effort is mainly dedicated to the content of the site, which is heraldic art.

Category: Technology.

Heraldic art on the web, March 2015

Heraldic art in Google Chrome, fixed design

This website Blason.es is formed by web pages consisting mainly of Html (HyperText Markup Language) code, with Css (Cascade style sheet) for styling and with some Javascript programming.

The textual content of these web pages is complemented with images fundamentally in JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format and, also, in PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format, with documents in PDF (Portable Document Format) format and with some videos in MP4 format.

Around March 2015, the structure of these web pages was a fixed format, although they were normally viewed in multiple browsers, including mobile devices.

The image illustrating this article shows the appearance of this site on that date as viewed by the Google Chrome browser.

Category: Technology.

Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society

I am the administer of the Facebook group Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society.

Metal, Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society

Parchment, Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society

Facebook, Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society

Welcome

Bienvenida, Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society

Rules of the group

Reglas, Heraldic Artists Appreciation Society

Society of Heraldic Arts, SHA, anuncios

Advertisements to promote the Society of Heraldic Arts among heraldic artists of this Facebook group.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, Diapered, Ermine, Blacksmith, Anvil, Hammer, Clarion, Lozengy, Estoile, Grand collar, Golden fleece, Inescutcheon, Enflamed, In orle, Flame, Irradiated, Line and Throughout (all sides).

Instagram

My personal Instagram wall is instagram.com/artistaheraldico.

Categories: Technology and Social networks.

Isch

The Commoners' Roll of Arms 2023 Full Edition, 260 pages featuring 401 coats of arms for people and 8 for entities, 92 badges, 69 standards, 30 flags, 299 written blazons, 68 heraldic artists, 36 heralds, 46 heraldic jurisdictions, 43 authorities, certificators and registers cited, 192 issued certifications for people and 7 for entities.

I am editor of the «Commoners' Roll of Arms» of the International Society of Commoners Heraldry and I have edited 145 biweekly editions from 2017 to 2023.

LinkedIn

My channel in English in LinkedIn is linkedin.com/in/antonio-salmerón-b4b63a4.

Categories: Technology, Social networks and Republic of Ireland.

Minds

My personal Minds wall is minds.com/asalmeron.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, Party per pale, Wavy, Azure, One, Dolphin, Naiant, Argent, Three, Escallop, Or, Stag, Gules, Attired, Bordure, Charged, Eight and Saltire.

Objkt

My heraldic NFTs in Objkt objkt.com/profile/antonios.

These historical coats of arms, emblazoned by me in order to be minted as unique Non-Fungible Tokens, are only available in this NFT format. By buying them you acquire an unrepeatable signed piece for your collection.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, NFT, Quarterly, Argent, One, Lion, Rampant, Purpure, Armed, Langued, Gules, Winged hand, Grasping, Sword and Or.

OpenSea

My heraldic NFTs in OpenSea opensea.io/DrASalmeronHeraldry.

These historical coats of arms, emblazoned by me in order to be minted as unique Non-Fungible Tokens, are only available in this NFT format. By buying them you acquire an unrepeatable signed piece for your collection.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, NFT, Gules, Halberd, Issuant from base and Argent.

Patreon

My heraldic Patreon wall is patreon.com/HeraldicArtbyAntonioSalmeron.

Categories: Technology and Social networks.

Pinterest, heraldry and coats of arms

Pinterest, board of heraldry and coats of arms

I introduce my heraldic style and coats of arms in pinterest.com/blasones with the following description: «My style as a heraldic artist is clear, simbolic and methodic. Clear because my work searches pieces which transmit energy and vital force to the owner, I think that a coat of arms should be a source of light and joy and an expression of freedom. Symbolic because coats of arms must be a representation of its bearer, his/her ideals, motivations, history and anything he/she might want to display. Methodical because heraldic art is founded on a science, the so called science of heraldry».

The blazons in English are in the following Pinterest's board: pinterest.com/blasones/heraldry-coats-of-arms.

Categories: Technology and Social networks.

Root: Pinterest.

Pixiv

My heraldic Pixiv wall is Dr.A.Salmeron @antoniosheraldry and pixiv.me/antoniosheraldry.

Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists. I post in Pixiv 2 or 3 coats of arms per week. They use a strict form to post with many mandatory input fields. This week, they have added a new mandatory field «AI-generated work: Yes / No», AI ~ Artificial Intelligence. In the image, I have highlighted this new field in red.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, Quarterly, Gules, One, Chevron, Argent, Between, Three, Fleur de lis, Or, Five, Mullet, In saltire, Four, Escutcheon, In cross, Azure, Charged, Nine, Bezant and plate, Two, Flank, Fesswise, Center, Overall, Carbuncle, Cord, In orle, Knotted, Purpure, Overall (all), Sable, Mount, Issuant from base, Vert, On, Tower, Port and windows, Masoned, Wolf, Supporting, Enté en point, Fess, Wavy, Crown of the Sovereign and Most Noble Order of the Pomegranate, Crown and Motto.

Rarible

My heraldic NFTs at Rarible rarible.com/blazon.

These historical coats of arms, emblazoned by me in order to be minted as unique Non-Fungible Tokens, are only available in this NFT format. By buying them you acquire an unrepeatable signed piece for your collection.

Categories: Technology, Social networks, NFT, Gules, Halberd, Issuant from base and Argent.