Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Since many people have wondered several times who this Mr Tyler was, and
> asked whether he was real, or even whether he was a human being, here is
> a quick answer : Ken Tyler is made up of pov primitives : triangles,
> spheres, cylinders etc.
> This is how he was created.
> 
> Happy birthday, Ken
> 
> Gilles Tran

  Thank you for your thoughtfull and unsolicited gift. I had not
realized I had allowed my outer appearence to become so degraded
and have made a note to do something about that someday. One thing
missing that caught my eye immediatly was the lack of auxillary
life support equipment and supply tubing. I have to have several
dedicated machines hooked to me at all times to take care of the
lower system processes. This allows me to concentrate all of my
massive intellectual thought processes on more important and
demanding tasks. Raytracing et.al.
 
> -----
> Disclaimer : this is a work of imagination. People shouldn't assume that
> you are bald, or suffer from a case of badly smoothed triangles. Or that
> you are primitive.

 I have been called primitave names before and I am a big boy now so
my feeling won't be hurt if they do say it again. And for the record
my fully folliculated triangles are quite smooth enough - thank you very
much. >; ^)

 
> Technical : it turns out that I have a kentyler directory... I had
> worked briefly on an image inspired by a picture Ken had posted on
> January 20th, but never finished it (got bored and ran out of ideas). I
> dug it up, added several elements from previous pictures. No coding at
> all but occasional translates and rotates.  Poser and the Colefax/Warp
> mesh compressor and deformer helped a lot.

   A kentyler directory ?
   Gee wiz! Where is mine !
   Even Ken Tyler doesn't have a kentyler directory on his system.

   After searching through the directory and coming to that date I am
 still unsure which of the very rare newsgroup posting of mine you are
 referring to. I am still finding it unlikely that anything I post
 image wise here can be considered a source of inspiration to someone else.

  It does appear that I was on a streak during that time frame and here is
 a list of images related Posts I made within 6 days prior to that time:

  on 1-14 posted image titled "Feelin Blue"

  * Most likely candidate for the image you say you referenced due
    to the inclusion of a humanoind shaped face in the image

  on 1-16 posted image titled If You Can't Go to Heaven
 
  * Second most likely candidate for the image you say you referenced
    due also to the inclusion of a humanoind shaped face in the image

  * This last was mainly a follow up to the previous blue faced image.
    I was just showing off by this time.

   The following two were closer to the date referenced but are in my opinion
 short on artistic inspiration and long on sharing of technical advancements
 in the raytracing industry.

    on 1-16 requested help with candle problem
    on 1-18 posted image titled Media Stuff 


    Regardless of the work in question I am honored that I have as least
  had some small impact in the artistic side of your life and for a change
  it was a good one at that.

  Thank you for the tribute Gilles.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> And here I was going to suggest that if he hasn't he should read the
> instructions on a toothpick box.
*grin *

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Get over it Ken... ;-)

Actually I REALLY liked this image (and your wonderful description Ken)...
it kind of reminded me of my Violent Society animation I did a few months
ago... featuring "Mr Wirro"!!!  :)

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/current_projects.html

The above address is for anyone vaguely interested in what I just said...
(oh, and it's not really a current project anymore... just that I haven't
had time to update that section yet)

Comments on those images would also be appreciated for anyone out there even
taking notice of me still...

--
Lance.


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Ken wrote in message <371E21C5.521600F6@pacbell.net>...
>Lewis wrote:
>>
>> Awesome!
>> I was about to say that you forgot Ken's brain, but then I remembered
>> that it wouldn't be a mistake... ;)
>> Just kidding!
>
>  Hurmmfff !!! I need no simple thing like an organic processing modules
>like you mere humans do. When you connect to the internet or any other
>form of electronic on line service you are connecting to my nueral
>network. I am virtually based here and partialy in another dimension not
>direcly accessable to you from this planet. This is why my problem

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*runs away frightened*

--
Lance.


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Spider wrote in message <371EC038.7E838F83@bahnhof.se>...
>
>
>Stephen Lavedas wrote:
>>
>> And here I was going to suggest that if he hasn't he should read the
>> instructions on a toothpick box.
>*grin *

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Funny how things work... It's always difficult to track down sources of
inspiration, but here is the (almost ?) full list of credits !
- The original Ken Tyler picture was titled "Re:If you can't go to heaven" and
posted on Jan, 20 (21:48). It features a head which is part metal on the top,
something I found particularly appealing (I'm weird, OK).
- Having another look at Lance Birch's Mr Wirro makes me think that there is no
doubt that it made its way into the Ken creation picture, at least
inconsciously. I remember seeing it and telling myself for a couple of minutes
that I should definitely grow up and buy Max because these were really cool
pictures.
- Dominique Jacquel's Spatch tutorial page features a Millenium Falcon which is
half mesh too :
http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/~dom/gfx/irtc_art_howto.html. The technique presented
is exactly the one I used (though the wireframe was obtained through Chris
Colefax's mesh macro and I never used Spatch).
- The first computer-generated pictures I ever saw were the ones in the movie
Tron (1982), and there was an animated (and rather crude) faceted "face" that
impressed me a lot and got me started in this 3D thing (though it took me
several years to actually start).

Now, inspiration also comes to me in lots of surprising shapes, including dust
bunnies.

Gilles

Lance Birch wrote:

> Get over it Ken... ;-)
>
> Actually I REALLY liked this image (and your wonderful description Ken)...
> it kind of reminded me of my Violent Society animation I did a few months
> ago... featuring "Mr Wirro"!!!  :)
>
> http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/current_projects.html
>
> The above address is for anyone vaguely interested in what I just said...
> (oh, and it's not really a current project anymore... just that I haven't
> had time to update that section yet)
>
> Comments on those images would also be appreciated for anyone out there even
> taking notice of me still...
>
> --
> Lance.
>
> ---
> For the latest 3D Studio MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
> The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
> For a totally different experience, visit my Chroma Key Website:
> Colorblind - http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/colorblind
>

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>- Having another look at Lance Birch's Mr Wirro makes me think that there
is no
>doubt that it made its way into the Ken creation picture, at least
>inconsciously. I remember seeing it and telling myself for a couple of
minutes
>that I should definitely grow up and buy Max because these were really cool
>pictures.

YEY TO MAX!!!  ;-)       (OK OK, PUT DOWN THE FLAMERS!!!  ;-)

>posted on Jan, 20 (21:48). It features a head which is part metal on the
top,
>something I found particularly appealing (I'm weird, OK).

Er.... uh................ (what???)

>Now, inspiration also comes to me in lots of surprising shapes, including
dust
>bunnies.
>
>Gilles

Um................. yes............... of course............... why didn't I
think of that?........... (confused silence)

;-)

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And *I* should have gone to sleep early?!?!
Yikes!

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Just kidding.

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What are dust bunnies?

Steve

Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Funny how things work... It's always difficult to track down sources of
> inspiration, but here is the (almost ?) full list of credits !
> - The original Ken Tyler picture was titled "Re:If you can't go to heaven" and
> posted on Jan, 20 (21:48). It features a head which is part metal on the top,
> something I found particularly appealing (I'm weird, OK).
> - Having another look at Lance Birch's Mr Wirro makes me think that there is no
> doubt that it made its way into the Ken creation picture, at least
> inconsciously. I remember seeing it and telling myself for a couple of minutes
> that I should definitely grow up and buy Max because these were really cool
> pictures.
> - Dominique Jacquel's Spatch tutorial page features a Millenium Falcon which is
> half mesh too :
> http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/~dom/gfx/irtc_art_howto.html. The technique presented
> is exactly the one I used (though the wireframe was obtained through Chris
> Colefax's mesh macro and I never used Spatch).
> - The first computer-generated pictures I ever saw were the ones in the movie
> Tron (1982), and there was an animated (and rather crude) faceted "face" that
> impressed me a lot and got me started in this 3D thing (though it took me
> several years to actually start).
> 
> Now, inspiration also comes to me in lots of surprising shapes, including dust
> bunnies.
> 
> Gilles
> 
> Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> > Get over it Ken... ;-)
> >
> > Actually I REALLY liked this image (and your wonderful description Ken)...
> > it kind of reminded me of my Violent Society animation I did a few months
> > ago... featuring "Mr Wirro"!!!  :)
> >
> > http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/current_projects.html
> >
> > The above address is for anyone vaguely interested in what I just said...
> > (oh, and it's not really a current project anymore... just that I haven't
> > had time to update that section yet)
> >
> > Comments on those images would also be appreciated for anyone out there even
> > taking notice of me still...
> >
> > --
> > Lance.
> >
> > ---
> > For the latest 3D Studio MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
> > The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
> > For a totally different experience, visit my Chroma Key Website:
> > Colorblind - http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/colorblind
> >

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From the "Dust bunnies FAQ" :

Q. What are dust bunnies?
A. Go look under the sofa and see for yourself.

More : http://www.dustbunnies.com/dustbin.htm

Dust bunnies can be modelled with blobs and media though no dust bunny has appeared
yet in this group.

Gilles

Steve wrote:

> What are dust bunnies?
>
> Steve
>
> Gilles Tran wrote:
> >
> > Funny how things work... It's always difficult to track down sources of
> > inspiration, but here is the (almost ?) full list of credits !
> > - The original Ken Tyler picture was titled "Re:If you can't go to heaven" and
> > posted on Jan, 20 (21:48). It features a head which is part metal on the top,
> > something I found particularly appealing (I'm weird, OK).
> > - Having another look at Lance Birch's Mr Wirro makes me think that there is no
> > doubt that it made its way into the Ken creation picture, at least
> > inconsciously. I remember seeing it and telling myself for a couple of minutes
> > that I should definitely grow up and buy Max because these were really cool
> > pictures.
> > - Dominique Jacquel's Spatch tutorial page features a Millenium Falcon which is
> > half mesh too :
> > http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/~dom/gfx/irtc_art_howto.html. The technique presented
> > is exactly the one I used (though the wireframe was obtained through Chris
> > Colefax's mesh macro and I never used Spatch).
> > - The first computer-generated pictures I ever saw were the ones in the movie
> > Tron (1982), and there was an animated (and rather crude) faceted "face" that
> > impressed me a lot and got me started in this 3D thing (though it took me
> > several years to actually start).
> >
> > Now, inspiration also comes to me in lots of surprising shapes, including dust
> > bunnies.
> >
> > Gilles
> >
> > Lance Birch wrote:
> >
> > > Get over it Ken... ;-)
> > >
> > > Actually I REALLY liked this image (and your wonderful description Ken)...
> > > it kind of reminded me of my Violent Society animation I did a few months
> > > ago... featuring "Mr Wirro"!!!  :)
> > >
> > > http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/current_projects.html
> > >
> > > The above address is for anyone vaguely interested in what I just said...
> > > (oh, and it's not really a current project anymore... just that I haven't
> > > had time to update that section yet)
> > >
> > > Comments on those images would also be appreciated for anyone out there even
> > > taking notice of me still...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lance.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > For the latest 3D Studio MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
> > > The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
> > > For a totally different experience, visit my Chroma Key Website:
> > > Colorblind - http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/parallax/359/colorblind
> > >

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