"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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| http://www.pjbcn.demon.co.uk/mirror.htm
| http://3dgallery.dhs.org/images/previews/wada_white.jpg
| http://www.geocities.com/paris/3352/geomet33.jpg
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Uggggh. Looks like SCC rejects.

I'm curious about the distinction between pictures like this and
wallpapers like Slime's recently posted 'Red Spheres'. Often, wallpapers
are posted here with no other intent than to be decorative, yet the
authors have crafted the images very carefully, spending hours tweaking
radiosity settings and materials and in this case post-processing.

Those who purport to depict (with CG) abstract subjects with a more
ambitious aim than mere decoration, however, more often than not have no
sense of craftsmanship. There is no visual indication that the artist
has any control over the appearance of the image at all. To put it
another way, it is often terribly obvious that the gimmick used to
create this abstract art (fractals, reflection, mathematical formulae,
etc.) provide more complexity on their own than the author is capable of
controlling or grasping himself.

It should be obvious from reading this that regarding abstract subjects
I aspire to be amongst the craftsmen rather than the artists.

| http://www.peertropolis.de/povring/quader01.jpg
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OK, I'm intrigued. By the "cloud" on the front of course, but even
moreso by that odd shadow under the lower-right corner. Beautiful,
interesting picture. It's unfortunate what compression has done to the
white lines.

 -Shay

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