One of the more idiosyncratic entries this round, this tracing depicts 

inventions awaits, in his workshop, inspection by its sponsor.


Accordingly, Txemi has used the virtual capability of computer graphics 
to model one of them.  The invention is shown in an imagined workshop. 
To look inside his workshop is to look into the life of Leonardo and pay 
tribute, and ponder how and why his powerful genius so captivates our 
imagination.

A distant room with a painting reminds us of the way Leonardo embodies 
both art and engineering with his inventiveness.  His engineering ideas 
are often whimsical and we take delight in the way he combines existing 
technologies in a new way to solve a problem.

This picture brings to life one such marriage: between an open bark and 
a waterwheel, to produce a paddleboat.  We can delight in the simple 
connection of crankshaft and gear wheels to apply manpower to a pair of 
paddlewheels, mounted on opposite sides of the bark.

The craft and all its components are carefully shaped with Hamapatch and 
some inventive texturing is used to simulate the woodwork  ;)  The 

workshop accoutrements, an assistant sweeping up, and an allusion to the 
visionary role of the inventor in the lightbeams pouring in through an 
open door.


much as his ideas shaped it, they map a connection between man's 
inventions and his archetypical desires.  He signifies not only the 
restless, technical genius behind man, the survivor, but man the dreamer 
and explorer as well.

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