While browsing in my lunch break, I came across this:

http://www.casabatllo.es/

I have no idea where the hell this is, but it looks like one very 
special building!



I also came across this picture of an amazing piece of furniture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Art_Nouveau_Dining_Masson.jpg

It boggles my mind that a human being was able to *think* of this shape, 
never mind actually curve it out of a lump of wood and have it not break...



More generally, doing a Google image search for "art nouveau" turns up 
huge numbers of images (of widely varying quality) featuring vibrant 
colours and sweeping curves.

One of the early hits is this:

http://tinyurl.com/qfkz85g

I have literally *no idea* how it is physically possible to draw curves 
like this. Even using a computer, I cannot begin to imagine how you 
would describe such intricate curves. I am baffled as to how anybody 
manages to draw these.

Here's another one:

http://tinyurl.com/q69kva6

How on Earth do you design something so complicated? How do you even 
picture something like that in your mind's eye, never mind actually 
*draw* it?

Finally, take a look at this:

http://arquitracobrasil.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/000188780.jpg

Isn't that the most amazing vista?



I guess we can take away two things from this:

1. I have no imagination.
2. I suck at drawing.



PS. If you try the thing with the image search, you will *also* find 
that about 80% of the images are of girls, in varying states of undress. 
I guess girls have more flowing curves - or the Internet is entirely 
populated by males...

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On 11/02/2014 7:33 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> While browsing in my lunch break, I came across this:
>
> http://www.casabatllo.es/
>
> I have no idea where the hell this is,

Barcelona

> but it looks like one very
> special building!
>

Welcome to the world of Gaudi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD

He also designed a church'
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sagrada+Fam%C3%ADlia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ToT6Uq6PHa_Q7AbakYCQBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1301&bih=614




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Regards
     Stephen

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Le 11/02/2014 20:33, Orchid Win7 v1 nous fit lire :

> http://tinyurl.com/q69kva6
> 
> How on Earth do you design something so complicated? How do you even
> picture something like that in your mind's eye, never mind actually
> *draw* it?
> 

"art nouveau" was inspired by tree, flowers, insects, and beats, as a
reaction to over linear industry-objects of the previous era (Victorian
"steampunk" is a caricature of that previous era)

Using industry-material to reproduce anti-industry pattern. It's a
reaction to the flat straight destination of all industrial production
of that time. Some entries of the Parisian metropolitan, built at that
period, are still displaying such fancy decorations.

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On 11/02/2014 08:14 PM, Stephen wrote:

> Welcome to the world of Gaudi.
>
> He also designed a church'
>
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sagrada+Fam%C3%ADlia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ToT6Uq6PHa_Q7AbakYCQBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1301&bih=614

Jesus Christ! O_O






...oh, wait.

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On 11/02/2014 09:02 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> "art nouveau" was inspired by tree, flowers, insects, and beats, as a
> reaction to over linear industry-objects of the previous era (Victorian
> "steampunk" is a caricature of that previous era)

I actually kinda like all that steampunk stuff too. (Although, as you 
say, it's an exaggeration; nothing like this ever actually existed in 
the Victorian era.)

I'm not sure what *caused* art nouveau; I wasn't there. I just know that 
it looks visually stunning. (I'm reminded of YES for some reason.) And, 
interestingly, it was apparently immediately followed by art deco, which 
is the polar opposite of it; flat colours and geometric shapes.



Also, I don't know when they added it, but now if you start typing in 
Google, it attempts to finish your search term for you. Which is 
fortunate, because "nouveau" is almost impossible to spell.

(There's an open source video driver for various nVidia GPUs which is 
named "nouveau" for some reason. Our team spent ages fixing broken 
builds due to yet *another* misspelling of this absurd name...)

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On 11/02/2014 9:43 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 11/02/2014 08:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Welcome to the world of Gaudi.
>>
>> He also designed a church'
>>
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sagrada+Fam%C3%ADlia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ToT6Uq6PHa_Q7AbakYCQBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1301&bih=614
>>
>
> Jesus Christ! O_O
>
>
That was the reaction he hoped to elicit, I would think.

>

> ....oh, wait.

:-)

If you ever get the chance. No! Make the opportunity to visit Barcelona. 
The sea food is above comparison, the art is there and the people are 
Spanish. Nay! Catalonian, therefore by definition nice people.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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On 11/02/14 21:50, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> I'm not sure what *caused* art nouveau; I wasn't there. I just know that
> it looks visually stunning. (I'm reminded of YES for some reason.) And,
> interestingly, it was apparently immediately followed by art deco, which
> is the polar opposite of it; flat colours and geometric shapes.
> 

That's interesting. It was memories of YES album covers that fired my
interest in ray-tracing.

> 
> Also, I don't know when they added it, but now if you start typing in
> Google, it attempts to finish your search term for you. Which is
> fortunate, because "nouveau" is almost impossible to spell.

Quite a while ago. I usually switch it off because I hate machines
trying to second-guess me.

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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On 11/02/2014 10:53 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> Quite a while ago. I usually switch it off because I hate machines
> trying to second-guess me.

I hate lippy machines.

-- 
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     Stephen

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>
> I have literally *no idea* how it is physically possible to draw curves
> like this. Even using a computer, I cannot begin to imagine how you
> would describe such intricate curves. I am baffled as to how anybody
> manages to draw these.
>

living in 1500, he made some wonderfull curves and knots.


-- 
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:43:46 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 11/02/2014 08:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
> 
>> Welcome to the world of Gaudi.
>>
>> He also designed a church'
>> https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sagrada+Fam%C3%
ADlia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ToT6Uq6PHa_Q7AbakYCQBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1301&bih=614
> 
> Jesus Christ! O_O
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ...oh, wait.

I still can't believe I was in Barcelona and didn't take the time to go 
see it.  Well, I could see it from the top of my hotel, but I was there a 
week ahead of the start of the conference I was there for (employer rules 
didn't allow everyone on a few flights, so they spread them out over many 
flights, and I was on the second flight in).

From where I was, it was pretty amazing.  I really wish I'd gone and had 
a closer look.

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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