Stephen McAvoy wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 03:22:36 -0400, Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom>
> wrote:
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> The path doesn't fit the back/mid ground. I can't put my finger on it

> seem mismatched with respect to the path, I think. 

Now that one I didn't quite expect.  But in a way you are pointing to 
the thing that was bothering me too, but I saw it in terms of the 
coloring.  This coloring was the first solution I was halfway happy 
with, ie the red brick road way and the light facing, but I wasn't sure 
it it would sell.

The blob is all of a piece, that is if I don't render the stairs, it 
would flow continuously.  So I wonder if that is it.  That if the 
expectation is that it would act as a retaining wall of sorts.  If it 
was truly a path, it would conform to the terrain more rather than being 
geometrically regular. But if it is geometrically regular then you 
should see the terrain conform to it?  In a cultivated garden the 
landscaper could actually have it both ways, I guess?  So maybe I need 
to either make the terrain more geometric to conform to the walkway or 
the walkway more conforming to the terrain.  Hmmm.  Kind of a b---h 
since that walkway was harder to do than I'd anticipated :(  It's not as 
if I didn't think of this before, it's just that I dismissed it with the 
idea that the whole thing is a fantasy anyway.  Something of a new thing 
for me, this fantasy business.

> Besides that, I
> think you're getting a foot fetish, Jim :-)

Yeah, but that's old news.  Melly nailed me on that one like four years 
ago.

This is an idea I've had since the "Gardens" round.  But I was unable to 
complete the entry in time back then.  Gilles, anyway, and I am sure 
many others, have been using mesh data to arrange objects since forever. 
  I always thought the topiary idea was screamingly obvious, what with 
the POVer's preoccupation with foliage generation and all, but I don't 
remember seeing anyone else do it so....
Somehow this idea of a fantasy garden of shoes seems like some sort of 
logical progression from the hundreds of paintings I used to do of shoes 
propped up on their toes:
http://www21.brinkster.com/jrcsurvey/paintings/selectedmenu.html

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