An idea has been bugging me since the new release. I was going to ask Toady about it, but it might be better to bring it up here.
The base is that since the new military system and all the equipment related stuff I'd love some graphical feedback on equipment worn or used by dwarfs or adventurers. Theoretically it should be possible even in standard df if the graf engine that picks the sprites would check for equipped items as well. Though there are some issues, first being the 16x16 sprites with limited zoom ability, you have to look at your monitor from like 2cm if you want to see what's the dude wearing (made an example of this based on Phoebus/Shr dwarfs, can upload it in .psd if someone wants to see it), and the other issue being that I don't think the game supports sprites built from multiple images with transparency. Than I realized this is exactly what stonesense does with facial features and such.
So here is the actual question, would it be possible to memory hack out more prominent equipment pieces and use them to overdraw a "blank" figure of say a military dwarf? If it is that brings up some more questions like what should be drawn? I'd say for testing ignore material types, and use only base weapons, and maybe helmet, chest armor, and greaves.
If this would be implemented with some examples on how to use, I'd be glad to make base sprites for this stuff, until someone with more talent does some realy nice ones. Also now that df uses adventurer grafs based on weapon skill it could be applied there to..