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5 Nov 2024 12:37:15 EST (-0500)
  Re: Flower and Metal WIP4  
From: Alain
Date: 1 Aug 2007 19:43:44
Message: <46b11ab0$1@news.povray.org>
Rune nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/08/01 19:08:
> Not much may *seem* changed here, but I've worked a lot on the small 
> details.
> 
> First of all, the stems have a different color and texture. I hope they 
> don't look so unhealthy now?
> 
> The stems had some problems with intersecting with the metal quite a few 
> places. I started fixing that manually by moving control points in the 
> splines, but that turned out to be both very difficult and very boring. So I 
> wrote an algorithm that moves the stems out of the way of the metal, using a 
> lot of trace() calls. Once I got it tweaked, it did a lot better job at it 
> than I could ever have done myself. The image should be free of intersecting 
> objects now. If you spot any at all, please let me know!
> 
> I think I have decided not to have any leaves on the stems. It would look 
> odd with brown or red or gray leaves, which are really the only acceptable 
> colors in this image. Green is still not an option...
> 
> I have troubles deciding on a name for the image. Various ideas have been
> 
> "Broken Canvas" - focus perhaps too much on the form and not the content?
> 
> "Metal and Flowers" - the simple approach - I'm not so sure.
> 
> I've also toyed with several ideas trying to convey the theme of the image, 
> but none that I'm satisfied with.
> "Organic Design" "Artificial Organics" "Organic Artifacts"
> Maybe "Constructed Growth"? "Designed Growth"? "Grown Constructions"?
> 
> *sigh* I don't know...
> 
> Rune
> 
Metal Flowers?
Growing Metal?

What you did to make the connection of the aparently free floating piece, also 
made the all metal look somewhat harder. It nicely increase the 
organic/inorganic contrast.

-- 
Alain
-------------------------------------------------
I bet exercise equipment would be a lot more
expensive if we had evolved from starfish.


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