July 29, 2008: New Stained Glass

xoxoxoBruce · 07-29-2008, 12:44 AM

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Contemporary German artist Gerhard Richter designed the 65-foot-tall work to replace the original, destroyed by bombs in World War II. As a starting point, he used his own 1974 painting 4096 Colors. To create that piece — a 64-by-64 grid of squares — Richter devised a mathematical formula to systematically mix permutations of the three primary colors and gray. Funny coincidence: 4,096 is also the number of "Web-smart" colors that display consistently on older computer screens, a limitation some Web designers still take into account. (Today's monitors, of course, can handle pretty much any hue.) The Cologne window is made of 11,500 four-inch " pixels" cut from original antique glass in a total of 72 colors. Why not 4,096? Turns out there are stained glass-smart colors, too. Some hues in Richter's initial design were either historically inaccurate or too pale — they would have outshone the squares around them. So the artist modified his palette to include only colors with a suitably archaic cast. Because it's fine for a church window to look like it's been designed by a computer, as long as it's a computer with a gothic sensibility.

Gerhard Richter

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Scriveyn · 07-29-2008, 02:37 AM

Open blank image - apply noise - resize

e walla!

ZenGum · 07-29-2008, 06:40 AM

I don't think it's very good. It's just a random arrangement of coloured patches. As Scriveyn points out, that's visual noise. I want my stain glass windows to be visual music: rhythm, pattern, maybe even meaning, or at least some kind of freaky effect when you stand at the right distance and cross your eyes. Then again, maybe it has this, and our photographer has missed it.

Hey, how about one of those magic eye pictures? ... there you are in church, your eyes become fixated on the apparently abstract ceiling, and suddenly, there is the face of The Lord staring right back at you! Blink, and it's gone.

Sheldonrs · 07-29-2008, 08:07 AM

If you stare at it long enough you can see Jesus riding a dolphin.

monster · 07-29-2008, 08:34 AM

shark.

monster · 07-29-2008, 08:37 AM

I thinks it's awful. I like the tradition of the windows being pictures telling bible stories and the like. But then it's none of my business seeing as I don't worship there. I hope the regular punters enjoy it and feel insipred/uplifted/spiritual/not migrainey.

Griff · 07-29-2008, 08:47 AM

This is unfortunate. Migraine inducing is the right description.

Shawnee123 · 07-29-2008, 08:55 AM

I see Waldo.

spudcon · 07-29-2008, 09:56 AM

I see Jimmy Hoffa!

Sheldonrs · 07-29-2008, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I see Waldo.

I see DEAD Waldos.

Shawnee123 · 07-29-2008, 10:36 AM

[obscure reference]He sees DEAD Waldos[/obscure reference]

Stormieweather · 07-29-2008, 01:07 PM

The closeup shot shows that the colored squares on right and left side mirror each other. It's too far away for me to be sure, but there appears to be some mirroring on the lower sections as well.

classicman · 07-29-2008, 01:48 PM

I concur with Stormie - a whole lotta inverse stuff going on there

SPUCK · 07-31-2008, 05:21 AM

Random is better than this..

xoxoxoBruce · 08-02-2008, 12:02 AM

I think this is the church, taken shortly after it lost it's original windows.

07-29-2008, 06:40 AM	#3
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I don't think it's very good. It's just a random arrangement of coloured patches. As Scriveyn points out, that's visual noise. I want my stain glass windows to be visual music: rhythm, pattern, maybe even meaning, or at least some kind of freaky effect when you stand at the right distance and cross your eyes. Then again, maybe it has this, and our photographer has missed it. Hey, how about one of those magic eye pictures? ... there you are in church, your eyes become fixated on the apparently abstract ceiling, and suddenly, there is the face of The Lord staring right back at you! Blink, and it's gone. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

07-29-2008, 08:07 AM	#4
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	If you stare at it long enough you can see Jesus riding a dolphin. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

07-29-2008, 08:34 AM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	shark. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-29-2008, 08:37 AM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I thinks it's awful. I like the tradition of the windows being pictures telling bible stories and the like. But then it's none of my business seeing as I don't worship there. I hope the regular punters enjoy it and feel insipred/uplifted/spiritual/not migrainey. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-29-2008, 08:47 AM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	This is unfortunate. Migraine inducing is the right description. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-29-2008, 02:37 AM	#2
Scriveyn amnesic-confabulatory opsimath Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Between my ears Posts: 739	Open blank image - apply noise - resize e walla!

07-29-2008, 08:55 AM	#8
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I see Waldo. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-29-2008, 09:56 AM	#9
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	I see Jimmy Hoffa! __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

07-29-2008, 10:36 AM	#11
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	[obscure reference]He sees DEAD Waldos[/obscure reference] __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-29-2008, 01:07 PM	#12
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	The closeup shot shows that the colored squares on right and left side mirror each other. It's too far away for me to be sure, but there appears to be some mirroring on the lower sections as well. __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

07-29-2008, 01:48 PM	#13
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I concur with Stormie - a whole lotta inverse stuff going on there __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

07-31-2008, 05:21 AM	#14
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Random is better than this.. Attached Images

08-02-2008, 12:02 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I think this is the church, taken shortly after it lost it's original windows. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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