POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Mr Tyler birthday picture (or "How he was created") : Re: Mr Tyler birthday picture (or "How he was created") Server Time
4 Oct 2024 09:17:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mr Tyler birthday picture (or "How he was created")  
From: Steve
Date: 22 Apr 1999 14:07:02
Message: <371F3DBF.6D309684@ndirect.co.uk>
What are dust bunnies?

Steve

Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Funny how things work... It's always difficult to track down sources of
> inspiration, but here is the (almost ?) full list of credits !
> - The original Ken Tyler picture was titled "Re:If you can't go to heaven" and
> posted on Jan, 20 (21:48). It features a head which is part metal on the top,
> something I found particularly appealing (I'm weird, OK).
> - Having another look at Lance Birch's Mr Wirro makes me think that there is no
> doubt that it made its way into the Ken creation picture, at least
> inconsciously. I remember seeing it and telling myself for a couple of minutes
> that I should definitely grow up and buy Max because these were really cool
> pictures.
> - Dominique Jacquel's Spatch tutorial page features a Millenium Falcon which is
> half mesh too :
> http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/~dom/gfx/irtc_art_howto.html. The technique presented
> is exactly the one I used (though the wireframe was obtained through Chris
> Colefax's mesh macro and I never used Spatch).
> - The first computer-generated pictures I ever saw were the ones in the movie
> Tron (1982), and there was an animated (and rather crude) faceted "face" that
> impressed me a lot and got me started in this 3D thing (though it took me
> several years to actually start).
> 
> Now, inspiration also comes to me in lots of surprising shapes, including dust
> bunnies.
> 
> Gilles
> 
> Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> > Get over it Ken... ;-)
> >
> > Actually I REALLY liked this image (and your wonderful description Ken)...
> > it kind of reminded me of my Violent Society animation I did a few months
> > ago... featuring "Mr Wirro"!!!  :)
> >
> > http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/current_projects.html
> >
> > The above address is for anyone vaguely interested in what I just said...
> > (oh, and it's not really a current project anymore... just that I haven't
> > had time to update that section yet)
> >
> > Comments on those images would also be appreciated for anyone out there even
> > taking notice of me still...
> >
> > --
> > Lance.
> >
> > ---
> > For the latest 3D Studio MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
> > The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
> > For a totally different experience, visit my Chroma Key Website:
> > Colorblind - http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/colorblind
> >


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.