On 29-7-2016 11:09, Stephen wrote:
> On 7/29/2016 7:58 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 28-7-2016 16:08, Stephen wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good.
>>> It made me think of doing an image of the kid as a scorpion.
>>
>> That would be interesting to do. I have pondered the complex chain
>> pattern worn by him but that seems far too complicated to model
>> dynamically in Poser and iirc he wore it under his clothes anyway.
>> Incidentally, I saw on the web somebody who tattooed the pattern on her
>> body (why not indeed?). Still, the kid is also on my (long) wish list.
>>
>
> Yes, the kid is more your kind of image than mine.
> I am more interested in the Projector and trying to get a person inside
> an illuminated Scorpion. That will probably something that is better in
> the mind than in the flesh.

It is a thought. I need to read the book again to get the mood again; it 
has been a while since last time.

> I've found a free scorpion mesh but it is not articulated. I should be
> able to pose it in Blender.

That should be possible indeed.

>
>
>> Lets see where that brings us. We always can combine elements into a
>> grand Delany scene. :-)
>>
>
> Let's do that. I can't promise I'll get an effect that will be acceptable.
> The optical chains remind me of the hippy beads I wore in the early
> seventies. The beads were strung together in a chain with brass wire and
> itched like hell. :)

It must be something like that indeed.

> All you would need is a loop showing at a cuff or a chest. But I am
> getting ahead of myself. :)

Yes. That would be enough and not too difficult. The kid himself should 
be rather straightforward as Poser modelling goes.

>
>>>
>>> A couple of years ago I made a start on the dress Lanya wore to the big
>>> party.
>>> [Un-sensuous nudity warning]
>>>
>>
>> Ah yes, I remember that one. I suppose the dress needed a couple more
>> subdivisions to move correctly ;-)
>>
>>
> It was only a proof of concept. It would need a bit more work it it were
> to be useful.
> It was the first time I had used Poser's Walk Designer as well. And it
> shows.
>
> I must say that book made an impression on me. I read it in the late
> 70's and I remember a lot.
>

Oh yes indeed; disturbing and fascinating at the same time. It has not 
lost its attraction either. It was a new way of writing SF at the time 
although I don't think it was really part of the 'New Wave' as promoted 
by Harlan Ellison at the time, although certainly close in concept.

-- 
Thomas

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