I like the infinity symbol but it has to be done properly

Looking at them side by side is making me realize how much I didn't realize I hate the top one
- Yeah the bottom one is almost soothing in the way that your eye loops through it.
  
  Part of that is however also that they chose better colors.
  
  I think purple should be the color that goes under the overpass, since it's the one our brain makes up between violet and red to turn our perception of visible light into a color wheel.

Fun fact! (Op may already know) but it's called a lemniscate! I learned this while doing a deep dive on the symbology of the rider waite tarot deck. Fascinating stuff it's basically a super complicated greco-roman-judeo-christian crossover fanfiction with touches of Egyptian mythology and some stuff from the near east, especially the parts that influenced western alchemy (the academic term is syncretism).
- I actually did not know that! That's so nifty!
- So it's a Lemmy Lemniscate when it's here?
  Try saying that three times fast

i can think of few better symbols of autism than going "no no, that's not accurate, hold on let me fix this.."

You could still keep the fountain pen style of the top while making the colors actually loop and while keeping functional antialiasing
- yeah, sorry about the jaggies, the top one originally had a black background which i bucket-tooled out, and you know how the bucket tool is with jpegs. :/
- That's a matter of perspective.
  I'll show myself out ...
- Nah, top one is just an 8 on its side, not an infinity symbol at all.

Does anyone know how to properly do the bottom variant in Inkscape? I only know how to do the top one and I don't like that
- You split the object into various smaller pieces, each with a gradient fill between two colours - you end one section with the same colour as you start the next. None of the objects have outlines. The objects can be layered in any order, except the "top of the crossover" has to go on top of everything else.
  You can then group all those sections to move them around as one object. Don't "union" them into one object, or you'll end up with it going like the top one.
  There's probably another 5 different ways of getting the same results - can I set a gradient along a custom path? I've never tried :)
  
  Here's a crude example (about 15 minutes messing about in Inkscape). The initial "infinity shape" could have been done a lot more neatly, and the chopping it up could have been done a lot more neatly, but hopefully it gets the idea across:
  The rounded pieces would probably have benefitted from being sliced into a few more pieces.
  Each gradient is just point-to-point between the two colours. You can adjust the direction of the linear gradient with the node tool.
  The easiest way to cut it up, is to put a disposable shape over the top, with edges where you want the cut to be, select both shapes and use "path>division" to cut the outline of the top shape into the bottom shape.
  You could certainly do this a lot neater and more accurately if you spent a little longer with it.
  Good luck! :)

Am I the only one who thinks it looks way to generic? I support it since it seems to be pretty well recognized but I wish it had more characteristics than rainbow figure 8.
I like it better than the Autism speaks puzzle piece since represents the community much better.
- my idea for a better icon?
  
  like it fits SO WELL
  
  This deserves all of the upvotes
- Aren't symbols of large groups supposed to be generic?
- If the infinity rainbow is gonna get used in any capacity though, I feel like the violet should be at the back, as it's the darker hue.

That looks nice

just got this to 2⁹ upvotes