Hi all

A while ago I posted an image built using the Tesselsphere program - it was
themed to be an alien creature travelling through space. Then I hit on the
idea that somewhere (the creator's office?) somebody sits building all life
- aliens and otherwise. So I decided to model this entity's office. I
wanted to aim for a conventional type of still-life scene, but with just
that bit of "wrongness" that it doesn't quite click, but something keeps
bothering you.

Heh.

Still working on it, so here's my current state - still gotta put stuff
outside the windows, and fingure out just precisely how I am going to
impart some "wrongess" / supernaturality / alienness into the scene... A
recurring theme at the moment is RGB - note that several sets of objects
all are either red, green, or blue, which is a visual pun on the fact that
any color can be represented using percentages of them, and so the sphere
creator has them exhibited in his / hers / its home and studio, since it,
well, creates stuff, and the colors remind that anything can be created.

Enough sci-fi. Still a lot of work to do, but up to now I am pretty pleased
with the result.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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"Stefan Viljoen polard.com>" <spamnot@<removethis> schreef in bericht
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> ...... So I decided to model this entity's office. I
> wanted to aim for a conventional type of still-life scene, but with just
> that bit of "wrongness" that it doesn't quite click, but something keeps
> bothering you.
>
> Heh.
>
> Still working on it, so here's my current state - still gotta put stuff
> outside the windows, and fingure out just precisely how I am going to
> impart some "wrongess" / supernaturality / alienness into the scene... A
> recurring theme at the moment is RGB - note that several sets of objects
> all are either red, green, or blue, which is a visual pun on the fact that
> any color can be represented using percentages of them, and so the sphere
> creator has them exhibited in his / hers / its home and studio, since it,
> well, creates stuff, and the colors remind that anything can be created.
>
> Enough sci-fi. Still a lot of work to do, but up to now I am pretty
pleased
> with the result.
> --

Ah! This is an interesting concept: Trying to imagine an alien environment.
You shall have to become an alien yourself in order to understand
its/his/her psychology.  :-)
I think the windows look too earthy, although there may be convergence
(there certainly should be, but in unexpected ways). Also the furniture will
be adapted to its/his/her morphology (bipedal?). Have you read 'Gateway' and
'Beyond the blue event horizon', by Frederik Pohl? There are some
interesting speculations there about alien morphology deduced from furniture
(that is shown to be wrong at the end of the books).

Thomas

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I'm trying to figure out what the white basket might be since there are what 
look, to me, like bathtub faucets above it.

Errrr.... or is that some of the wrongness? Water faucets over something 
which couldn't hold water! Ha ha.

Got me thinking that there could be a waste can/basket holding several 
tossed out ideas or broken stuff.

Bob

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Thomas de Groot spake:

> 
> "Stefan Viljoen polard.com>" <spamnot@<removethis> schreef in bericht
> news:42ef0e62@news.povray.org...
>> ...... So I decided to model this entity's office. I
>> wanted to aim for a conventional type of still-life scene, but with just
>> that bit of "wrongness" that it doesn't quite click, but something keeps
>> bothering you.

> Ah! This is an interesting concept: Trying to imagine an alien
> environment. You shall have to become an alien yourself in order to
> understand
> its/his/her psychology.  :-)
> I think the windows look too earthy, although there may be convergence
> (there certainly should be, but in unexpected ways). Also the furniture
> will be adapted to its/his/her morphology (bipedal?). Have you read
> 'Gateway' and 'Beyond the blue event horizon', by Frederik Pohl? There are

I've heard a lot about the novels but have never gotten around to reading
one of them. Played an abandonware computer game a while ago that was
themed to be a Gateway (?) game. Weir stuff.

> some interesting speculations there about alien morphology deduced from
> furniture (that is shown to be wrong at the end of the books).

Thanks Thomas this is a good idea. Yeah, so far the scene may be a bit too
ordinary, having a weirdly shaped stool or something for the entity to sit
in would really work nice.

Kind regards,
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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Bob Hughes spake:

> I'm trying to figure out what the white basket might be since there are
> what look, to me, like bathtub faucets above it.

Haha! That's part of the idea - the thought is that this guy gets the
spheres and "tessels" (the struts outside the sphere in the original image)
that he builds the aliens out of out of those two faucets. I am still
casting around for some kind of jumble macro or algorithm that will allow
me to drop spheres and tessels into the "laundry basket" so that it looks
as if they flowed in through the two faucets.
 
> Errrr.... or is that some of the wrongness? Water faucets over something
> which couldn't hold water! Ha ha.

That's part of the idea - I deliberately clashed a liquid with a container
that would not contain any water...
 
> Got me thinking that there could be a waste can/basket holding several
> tossed out ideas or broken stuff.

Hey thanks that's a good idea. Some broken spheres or tessels... yeah that
will work nice. I was just wondering what would go to the right of the
table to fill the empty space there.

Thanks for looking at my image and replying!

Kind regards,
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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