"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
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> You took that well
>
Why not? It is a good way to sharpen understanding and make progress.


> Now it's your turn.
>
Ok. Taking up the gauntlet...


> Attached is my own attempt at a classical minimalist raytracing:
>
> Features:
> -orthographic camera so it is not a perspective space
> -ambient or "pure" color only
> -only the "transparency" of the color is varied
> -minimalist theme of an interleaved sequence suggesting "stasis"
> -use of unit squares unless good reason why not
> -use of centered composition unless good reason why not
> -use of off-white background because nobody's perfect
>
>
You certainly went a long way in the right direction and while I do agree to
the minimalism concept expressed here (especially "stasis"), I miss the
little POV touch to finish it off. This is just a personal feeling, that we
should "see" this is not made by painting a canvas, or drawing with
Photoshop, but that a 3D environment is at the origin of the object. Not
necessarily by placing it in a 3D environment by the way, like I did and
which should remain secondary.
I find the list of features you provide stimulating. They could serve as
some kind of conceptual rules for a series of scenes, in the manner of the
Dogma film directors like Lars von Trier... and discover, like them, that
there are severe limits to the concept which make them abandon it gradually.

Thomas

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