Jim Charter wrote:
> 
> Mesh or primitives?  Inquiring minds want to know.

All mesh, no primitives.

> A visual and technical feast!  Intellectually I would love to know
> how this morphed out of the earlier abstractions.  Obviously there
> are commonalities, but I feel there is something more too it.

All true. And there *is* something more. I wanted those free posters! :)
This is an improvement of my image for the original Povcomp.

> For  instance, in the past you have expressed a,... distaste, for
> the  idea of using raytracing to recreate from a photo source.  So
> there  is something almost relaxed about this one.

This is basic "model airplane" type stuff, but it's not from a photo. I 
still found a lot of room to conform to my visual tastes. The 
"composition" (of you want to call it that) reflects my intended 
ultimate use for the picture, a gift for the ladies at my favorite Bun 
Mi/pho shop. This is how the pagoda art (typically the Temple of Heaven) 
  looks in those places. Works for me, because it allowed me to use all 
of my RAM on the pagoda itself.

> The spatial achievements in your post exactly previous to this looked
> mindbending to me compared to this.

Thank you, and it's posts like that one which compelled me to post 
*this* image (not my original intention...too much like public wound 
licking). I have seen a lot of amateur abstract work lately and become 
very dissolusioned. Because it can be so technically easy to create, I 
think that abstract has become a haven for the technically 
unsophisticated. My capitalist nature tells me that consideration of 
such technically simple things must be *earned*. This is my payment for 
your future consideration. Hence my little inside joke, calling this 
post 'the difference'. I will spoil it and share that 'the difference' 
is short for:

"the difference between 'can't' and 'don't want to'".

...but I bet you'd guessed that already.

> I know you are into martial arts

No. Must be thinking of someone else.

> There is the idea of pattern.  Then there is the idea of pattern in 
> space, tactile pattern.  This raytracing, and this architecture, ( it
> is based on a real architectural style I'm assuming ) seems to embody
> that idea particularily well.

Hey, model airplane or no, pagodas are *very* cool. Still, wouldn't hang 
it on my wall.

  -Shay

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