Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:

> There is one person here who mentions something in conversation that is
> very close to my own experience.  The person is Jaime Vives Piqueres,
> and what he talks about is the role of "surprise" in his motivation for
> making pictures.  I think it is significant that he, like me, is mostly
> a mimetic artist.  This role of surprise was crucial to me during all
> the years I spent painting.  It may seem counter-intuitive to others but
> realists or mimeticists can be genuinely surprised at the outcome of a
> painting or image.  It is really at the heart of it, even when the sole
> purpose is to reproduce some object.  It has something to do with the
> idea of garnering and displaying empirical information.


for original styles to have developed yet. Also PovRay strives to be photo
realistic and we try to create images that look real. Even the mathematical
images are (just) beautiful visions of already described functions.
 Not that I think this is a bad thing.

Oh! Great goblet BTW, love the filigree on the base. I wish I could help
with the metal. How are your lights?

Stephen

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