June 28, 2007: Trash shadow

Flint · 06-28-2007, 07:51 PM

The closest thing to what I'm thinking, regarding multiple images cast and reproduced on a single, complex 3-D surface, and this is a gross over-simplification, but you know those billboards that change as you drive by? Like that, but, not to name the particular object, it's much more interesting than parallel, vertical louvers with angled facets.

To do what I'm talking about, you'd need something like a Tracer, which I do have, and which most notably a friend and I used to blow up a single eye from an india ink, cross-hatched illustration (he did) of a photograph of a model's face, up from about one inch to about ten feet across, then re-colored it with oil pastels, thus making a perfect photographic reproduction of a human eye that you can only see from at least twenty feet away.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-28-2007, 08:03 PM

And what did it's shadow look like?

LabRat · 06-29-2007, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

...a perfect photographic reproduction of a human eye that you can only see from at least twenty feet away.

Wow, do you or he have any close vs. far pics of that? I would love to see how that turned out!

Flint · 06-29-2007, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by spudcon

Seagulls, shadows, or whatever, we're all fortunate to be viewing this away from the stink of 6 month old garbage.

I'd say this is definitely a case of someone suffering for their art!

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Originally Posted by LabRat

Wow, do you or he have any close vs. far pics of that? I would love to see how that turned out!

I don't have any pics; but as soon as I get a chance (whenever I go to my friend's house next) I will take some from the normal standing-next-to-the-wall-looking-at-a-painting range, and then from the distance-that-the-image-starts-to-make-sense range.

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So, I sketched up some diagrams...
..the first two involving casting shadows on 2-D and then 3-D surfaces, while the 3-D surfaces retain their information...
..the third involving projected, visible light images, reproduced on 3-D surfaces, so that different images become visible depending on the angle:

skysidhe · 07-02-2007, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

I'd say this is definitely a case of someone suffering for their art!

I don't have any pics; but as soon as I get a chance (whenever I go to my friend's house next) I will take some from the normal standing-next-to-the-wall-looking-at-a-painting range, and then from the distance-that-the-image-starts-to-make-sense range.

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So, I sketched up some diagrams...
..the first two involving casting shadows on 2-D and then 3-D surfaces, while the 3-D surfaces retain their information...
..the third involving projected, visible light images, reproduced on 3-D surfaces, so that different images become visible depending on the angle:

*thinks to self*

oh..my...f'king gawd,,,give me a break

way to dissect childs play

....it's shadow play Flint!

ok don't get mad. I am not attacking you...just saying.

06-28-2007, 07:51 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	The closest thing to what I'm thinking, regarding multiple images cast and reproduced on a single, complex 3-D surface, and this is a gross over-simplification, but you know those billboards that change as you drive by? Like that, but, not to name the particular object, it's much more interesting than parallel, vertical louvers with angled facets. To do what I'm talking about, you'd need something like a Tracer, which I do have, and which most notably a friend and I used to blow up a single eye from an india ink, cross-hatched illustration (he did) of a photograph of a model's face, up from about one inch to about ten feet across, then re-colored it with oil pastels, thus making a perfect photographic reproduction of a human eye that you can only see from at least twenty feet away. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio** Last edited by Flint; 06-28-2007 at 08:01 PM.

06-28-2007, 08:03 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	And what did it's shadow look like? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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