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by userbinator 2881 days ago
To me, the icons are far too abstract to mean anything. They all look like the results of someone playing around randomly in a 3D modeling tool. For example, look at the CloudFront icon. I'd expect something more evocative of clouds or similar, but it's just a cube that's been cut and exploded with the rear two subcubes removed.

That said, they're probably extremely easy to generate procedurally:

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctio...