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  Re: Mr Tyler birthday picture (or "How he was created")  
From: Fabien HENON
Date: 21 Apr 1999 14:50:19
Message: <371E1008.AE060C23@club-internet.fr>
Pfou !

That's an awesome picture, what modeller did you use for the face and the
small figure.

J'en reste le cul par terre ( I won't translate that one !)





> Since many people have wondered several times who this Mr Tyler was, and
> asked whether he was real, or even whether he was a human being, here is
> a quick answer : Ken Tyler is made up of pov primitives : triangles,
> spheres, cylinders etc.
> This is how he was created.
>
> Happy birthday, Ken
>
> Gilles Tran
>
> -----
> Disclaimer : this is a work of imagination. People shouldn't assume that
> you are bald, or suffer from a case of badly smoothed triangles. Or that
> you are primitive.
>
> Technical : it turns out that I have a kentyler directory... I had
> worked briefly on an image inspired by a picture Ken had posted on
> January 20th, but never finished it (got bored and ran out of ideas). I
> dug it up, added several elements from previous pictures. No coding at
> all but occasional translates and rotates.  Poser and the Colefax/Warp
> mesh compressor and deformer helped a lot.
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]


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