"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> It is a compelling image in it's own right.
>
> The idea of course has lots of pedigree
> Leonardo, famously, but I expect you knew that:
> http://www.mirabilissimeinvenzioni.com/ing_treatiseonpainting_ing.html
>
> I am also reminded of, I think it was Darren New, posting once about 
> research into how music stimulates common brain regions in diverse human 
> groups.
>
> I had a group of brain researchers in my taxi one night and I mentioned 
> that research/book to them.  I mentioned to one how it called up the 
> question for me of how someone even recognizes that something is music. 
> Surely it was cultural and context-driven.  His reponse was [to the best I 
> can recall] that certain research indicated that humans would reacted to 
> repeated fragments of sounds in the same way as to music.  But I didn't 
> get much detail, the conversation took that turn just as he was getting 
> out of the car.
>
Absolutely true. Several years ago, I was supervising a drilling site in the 
Portuguese dunes. The sound of the drill rig was very rythmic and 
repetitive, and soon enough it transformed in my head into a melodious kind 
of symphony by a whole orchestra. If I had been a composer, I would have 
noted down the melody and orchestration and would now be known as the author 
of "The Drill Rig Symphony in b flat"  :-)

Thomas

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stbenge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Cousin Ricky wrote:
> >
> > Seated Buddha, right of center.
> > Fertility goddess with an apron full of fruit, slightly above center.
> > 17th century European queen, left of center.
> > Another European queen, at 10 o'clock.
> > European king showing off his dark cape, at 2 o'clock.
> > Bishop holding the communion wafer over his head, 3 o'clock.
> > African twin ladies, 5 'oclock.
> > Twin African princesses, 5:30.
> > Faces, stained glass windows, and bishops' miters everywhere!
> >
>
> That's why I named it "Kingdom." :) Could my choice for a name have
> influenced what you saw?
>
> Sam

Well, if you'd named it "Satori," i might have seen more Buddhas and fewer
queens, but overall kings and queens would still have been in the mix.  My
first impression was of an eastern tapestry, with the ornate baroque character
coming out only after poring over the image for a while.

I was surprised that other people didn't see Buddhas.

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stbenge wrote:

> 
> This reminds me of the time I heard the Frog Chorus. Suddenly the random 
> croaking of frogs fit together into a coherent melody.
> 

Nice.  Well I have a couple if frogs in my apartment along with a colony 
of crickets.  The frogs don't make much noise but the crickets are 
another thing entirely.  Still waiting for the din to cohere though.


>> And, now that I am going, wasn't the virus in Snow Crash and visual 
>> pattern?
> 
> 
> What's that? I didn't understand it... :/

Well apparently I remembered it wrong, anyway but Snow Crash is a Neal 
Stephenson novel about a virus.  But the speading virus may not have 
been necessarily a visual pattern like I remembered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

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Thomas de Groot wrote:

> Absolutely true. Several years ago, I was supervising a drilling site in the 
> Portuguese dunes. 

Had never pictured you as that,... though I guess that explains your 
knowledge of geology and related things.

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"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht 
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> I was surprised that other people didn't see Buddhas.
>

I was close: I saw Hindu temple dancers  :-)

Thomas

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
>> Absolutely true. Several years ago, I was supervising a drilling site in 
>> the Portuguese dunes.
>
> Had never pictured you as that,... though I guess that explains your 
> knowledge of geology and related things.

I am a geologist...  :-)
However, to refine the picture, this was not an oil rig, but a fairly small 
device for research purposes. We didn't go deeper than 45m...

Thomas

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:16:02 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:

RL took it's toll yesterday. I thought I saw a message from Sam saying that the
image was too big. So here is another one from the same series. In this part of
the series they are very similar this one has better definition. If I can get
the animation down to a reasonable size, I'll post it.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:34:48 +0200, "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet>
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>
>"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht 
>news:web.486bc31f3b3e15e185de7b680@news.povray.org...
>> I was surprised that other people didn't see Buddhas.
>>
>
>I was close: I saw Hindu temple dancers  :-)
>
>Thomas
>
As did I
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Regards
     Stephen

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Hi Sam,

This is really, really,  interesting - and beautiful

I want to post on my blog - a way to talk about povray too

Do you have made some other images ?


cheers,

karpov

blog : www.yanatchkov.com/dokuwiki

mail : mil01 et free dot fr

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