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Re: Escher Hands (was Re: Gone soft...)
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lugnet.build
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Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:47:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Thomas Garrison writes:
> In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
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> > Okay, I tried to get something close to the Escher drawing hands that are
> > drawing each other into existence, the results can be seen here:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/blueofnoon/escher/escher.jpg
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> It looks good to me. . .
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> > I was a little disappointed with the resulting render for several reasons.
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> > Another complaint is that there is no way that one 3D object can look like
> > it's drawing the other into plastic existence -- drawing with a stylus has
> > almost nothing to do with creating 3D objects in 3D, so you lose Escher's
> > contextual joke immediately. Plus, there's no way to traverse that silly
> > space between 2D and 3D as does Escher with his drawing -- this Escher piece
> > requires conceptual/visual fakery that is probably easiest to achieve with
> > paper and pencil in 2D where 3D is suggested by some shading of a
> > conceptually "3D object" which is actually just some lines on 2D paper.
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> So this suggests to me that the translation of media should, to preserve the
> meaning of the piece, involve a translation of what is depicted. In other
> words: why not show the two hands building each other?
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> TWS Garrison
I have agree with TWS here. Two hand building each other would be great.
Nevertheless, your current version, is pretty nifty too. (Time for a new
background.)
-Jason
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