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From: Jim Charter
Date: 25 Jan 2002 12:05:09
Message: <3C5192C1.530DA2D0@aol.com>
Looks like an interesting start.  The effect of the sky and the text in the
border is quite compelling.  Would be interested in how you created the text
border.

ewok wrote:

> Sorry about that. I was trying to avoid Microsoft altogether. But it seems
> it's just easier to compromise. (If anyone can recommend a good newsviewer
> that ISN'T called Outlook, I'd be more than happy to try it.)
>
> [Image "How-I-Did-It to follow, by request]
>
> Although I haven't seen much in the way of dragon-curves in the newsgroups,
> I somehow feel that this is a sort of "initiation" into the PoV cult. (Much
> like the infamous chessboard.)
>
> This scene has four dragon-curves eminating from the crossroads. These
> curves never meet (according to William G. Harter, as I found in an article
> by Martin Gardner). The result is intersected with the landscape hightfield.
>
> Thanks goes to Gilles Tran for the tree macro, and Michael Hough for the
> cloud tutorial.
>
> The quote is from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
>
> Viewing Suggestion: Pat Metheny's "Travels."
>
> I realise that in order to sustain an art medium inside one's self, there
> must be some form of communication of that art. An object does not exist if
> there is no-one to observe it (a tree falling in an empty forest, for
> example). Likewise, I felt if I wasn't getting "out there," my work really
> is more than invisible - it doesn't exist. So here I am!
>
> More images at my vastly improved website.
>
> -Eli
>
>  [Image]


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