What follows is a carved in stone tile with a fractal doodle and a 
bas-relief of a
lady in just a skirt.

While it is possible to discern that she is topless, it is only barely so.

Nonetheless, I'm going to put an annoying column of text here to move 
any in-line attachments down the page for all you mommies and daddies. 
 Sorry for any inconvenience.  I just thought I should
say something.

I'm trying to be a polite poster.  Smaller image this time anyway.

Thanks

Bill



barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

barely recognizable weathered bas-relief Half-Naked Lady

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Seems like you're afraid that people will die if they see the skin of the
upper part of a human/female body.
Today I saw all kinds of naked bodies:
 - 187 doves (one runover by a car, but still no clothes)
 - 17 dogs (1 wore a hat, maybe against the sun)
 - 8 cats
 - 3 fish
 - 2 turtles
 - 25 crows
 - 36.5 sparrows (one dead sparrow, half but naked)
 - 1 mouse
 - lots of insects.

And I'm still alive! I even managed to survive several attacks caused by
viewing naked folks. Unbelievable. I don't worry about seeing people with
guns on tv that kill eachother and people hitting eachother with fists and
sometimes very useful tools like bats, sticks, hammers and sometimes chairs
or tables. And for the children we have cartoons showing characters hitting
eachother, shooting eachother and we have the A-team also. And why do those
children survive? Because there are no nude people, except for Donald Duck
and and some other cartoon characters that really should wear pants. The
nefews of Donald Duck don't wear pants, isn't that offensive!

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Anyways, I like the picture. It looks like a small detail from a beautiful
wall with many other reliefs!

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That is a really cool idea!

It's striking to give something a "very old" feeling while using fractals to
define most of the relief.  It sparks the imagination with ideas that
perhaps fractals were discovered hundreds of years ago...

I might have to borrow that concept at some point... ;-)

-- 
Slash

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Fascinating piece of work.  I have no clue how you did it.  But I think 
that a
weathered bas-relief is a subject with great potential.

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I agree with you, I really do. I was concerned because a while back 
there was this big discussion here about positng nudity.  Somebody 
posted some beautiful images of a nude woman posing among these dense 
meandering nests of post-industrial pipes...
I don't remember much about it except that it seemed at the time that 
artistic nudity was acceptable, but we should say something. I suppose, 
to be entirely PC (Postically Correct), we should post a warning for 
violent or potentially violent images.  Of course, everyone is 
potentially naked...

Thank you for the empathy

Bill


Apache wrote:

>Seems like you're afraid that people will die if they see the skin of the
>upper part of a human/female body.
>Today I saw all kinds of naked bodies:
> - 187 doves (one runover by a car, but still no clothes)
> - 17 dogs (1 wore a hat, maybe against the sun)
> - 8 cats
> - 3 fish
> - 2 turtles
> - 25 crows
> - 36.5 sparrows (one dead sparrow, half but naked)
> - 1 mouse
> - lots of insects.
>
>And I'm still alive! I even managed to survive several attacks caused by
>viewing naked folks. Unbelievable. I don't worry about seeing people with
>guns on tv that kill eachother and people hitting eachother with fists and
>sometimes very useful tools like bats, sticks, hammers and sometimes chairs
>or tables. And for the children we have cartoons showing characters hitting
>eachother, shooting eachother and we have the A-team also. And why do those
>children survive? Because there are no nude people, except for Donald Duck
>and and some other cartoon characters that really should wear pants. The
>nefews of Donald Duck don't wear pants, isn't that offensive!
>
>
>  
>

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gee, I feel like I just wrote to you.

Hopefully the first of many.

BN

Apache wrote:

>Anyways, I like the picture. It looks like a small detail from a beautiful
>wall with many other reliefs!
>
>
>  
>

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Thank you very much!

The tile is six heightfields. One for the big square texture (plasma 
fractal from Fractint, made greyscale in Photoshop), one for each of the 
swirly-doo things (I'm not sure, but I think it was a Mandel-Lambda), 
and one for the figure in the center (a photo of Bettie Page that's been 
reprinted and posted and reused so often that it must be public domain 
by now, originally black and white, background blacked-out in Photoshop 
to move the base to the very bottom).

Six Grey80 area lights and a blue-gradient sky_sphere.

Signed, resized for posting and jpged in Photoshop.

Thanks for asking.  Okay, you didn't ask.  You almost asked, I guess.

Thanks again.

Bill

Jim Charter wrote:

> Fascinating piece of work.  I have no clue how you did it.  But I 
> think that a
> weathered bas-relief is a subject with great potential.
>
>

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Thank you very much!

You're very kind.  I'm just getting back into fractals.  I played with 
Fractint, this really old fractal generator, when my roommate had the 
only computer in the house, but when I got my own, he showed me how to 
use POV and, well, you know.  Now that I can use the two together...

I'm glad I could "spark the imagination"

Thanks,
Bill

Slashdolt wrote:

>That is a really cool idea!
>
>It's striking to give something a "very old" feeling while using fractals to
>define most of the relief.  It sparks the imagination with ideas that
>perhaps fractals were discovered hundreds of years ago...
>
>I might have to borrow that concept at some point... ;-)
>
>  
>

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Bill Naylor wrote:
>
>While it is possible to discern that she is topless, it is only barely so.
>
BARELY so?  (I love puns, the worse the better)  :-)
--LibraryMan

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