Only one cloud icon in the whole Universe

One of the famous Microsoft developers Scorr Hanselman (Scorr Hanselman) published a message that justifies the image of the cloud on the ASP.NET site.



He says that after changing the design ASP.NET received a lot of letters with jokes "cool iCloud icon". Like, looks very much like the Apple iCloud icon.
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But there is no question of any plagiarism here, says Scorr. First, Microsoft has evidence that they bought this icon from the Pictos collection in March 2010.

Here is the original from there:



Secondly, it is found in images published under the Creative Commons license.



And in dozens of third-party programs.



Well and, thirdly, Apple fans themselves explain why this icon is so beautiful, praising the designers of the “apple” company. The fact is that the combination of circles in it corresponds to the proportions of the golden section .



Here is a step-by-step guide on how to draw an iCloud icon in Photoshop.

The golden section φ = (1+√5)/2 surrounds us everywhere in nature, as shown in this video.



Moreover, even a child who knows nothing about patent law, if asked to draw a cloud, draws about the same map — with a flat bottom and four semicircles, says Scorr. So there can be no talk of plagiarism. Apparently, in the Universe there really is only one way to draw a pictogram of a cloud.