"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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|Shay:
| My "clean" render style may be getting played out here as well.<shrug>

|Jim Charter:
| Where is "here?"  These groups?

More "here" in the southern colloquial sense. I don't think that it's
possible to play-out anything in p.b.i.. Every day there are new people
who have never seen a Julia or CSOCP or even Menger's.

It's not played out in that I'm tired of it, only in that my first
picture (many cylinders) in my Vermeer kick is still and probably will
always be the best. It's the only one I've uploaded for printing. The
whole thing has gone off track.

Van Gogh has always been my favorite visual artist, and I went for years
trying to do as he did. To draw concrete locations and inject some type
of feeling into them. I have few successes from these years because this
is *HARD*.

Then I saw the Vermeer special and learned that Vermeer was the ultimate
macaroni artist. He just drew a few shapes and filled them in with
whatever he liked and could paint beautifully. Vermeer had a talent for
painting people and light, the best aptitude I have is for complex
figures, nothing like Vermeer's talent and not at all an uncommon
aptitude amongsts a group like this, but you take what you're given.

This only lasted for a few pictures (one great) and then I wandered off
into doing the opposite, taking a small piece and trying to compliment
it by arranging copies of it into a complimentary configuration. This
got me the "architecturall styled image" and the Menger's. Both not
wholly mine because the complexity of one was inspired by a post by
Stepehen Pigeon (all of my previous attempts were similar, but were
missing density), and the root shape of the other (the Menger's corner)
was noticed first in a recent image by J Trask. This one counts half at
best, becuase it's really just fooling around rather than trying to make
anything nice.

So, while it is very cool to for the first time have a few images lying
around to show people when they ask, creatively I'm getting very stale.

|Jim Charter:
| The yellow and green ball like picture.  But I admired it.
| <snip> I liked the edgy colour harmony.

Thanks. I worked a ton on the colors.

|Jim Charter:
| This one is more accessible I'd say.  Playful. Probably slightly
| mocking if I remember you own comments on the raytracing artist's
| affection for program generated recursion correctly.

I have to admit that I do like how a few added details can make the
difference between a three-line quicky and (in this case) about six
pages of code. Can't crow about it too loud though, as these
accomplishments are too easily trumped by any organic model.

| I general I enjoy the variety that the clean style and the
| perspective tricks offer.  But I usually  have little knowledge
| technically of what I am looking at.

Nothing fancy here. Just a mesh, a few cylinders, and a point light.
Hope this long post didn't wear you out. I'm in a typing kind of mood.

 -Shay

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